THE ESTATE OF BARBARA ROMAIN
A Life's Work, Six Decades in the Making
For nearly six decades, Barbara Romain built a body of work — in paint and in clay — that hung in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was shown internationally in Cologne, Germany, all while a degenerative eye disease slowly took her sight. Today, several dozen of her paintings and ceramic works live in private collections across the country. The Estate itself holds hundreds more originals, including nearly 100 exhibited ceramic and pottery pieces.
A limited number of her paintings continue forward as Estate Editions — hand-numbered, sealed, and released only with the Estate's authorization.
The paintings themselves. More than 35 originals held in private collections and institutions across the country — a living record of where her work has traveled since she made it.
Museum-grade, hand-numbered editions of her most significant paintings — each fixed at 25, sealed by the Estate, and closed forever once sold out.
Barbara Romain (1948–2024) was a contemporary painter who lost her sight to a degenerative retinal disease partway through her career and kept working — building large-scale acrylic and mixed-media paintings from memory, touch, and what she called visual music. Her paintings have been shown in galleries and institutions across the United States and internationally, including a 2013 juried exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Today, the Estate of Barbara Romain manages two collector-facing programs: a hand-numbered Estate Edition print program, produced from her authorized digital masters and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity, and an ongoing record of her original paintings, most now held in private collections and a small number of public institutions.