by Ioannesfrobenius, froebelgalleries, ©2026
(Oct. 19, 2026) — In 2018 this author penned an article for TSARIZM (tsarizm.com) about the 2018 publication titled Anastasia Again: The Hidden Mystery of the Romanovs. This was the precursor to the 2024 book Grand Duchess Anastasia: Still a Mystery? (histriabooks.com/product/grand-duchess-anastasia). The original article is used as the basis of this updated version. It is the author’s hope that readers will learn about artist Barbara Korr Green’s career as an artist and her grand oeuvre, the life size oil portrait of an adult Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov, at about age 40, in court dress.
Barbara Korr Green and her husband, Francis Eugene (F.E.) Green, have been associated with Froebel Gallery (known first as Grupo Arte, Madrid-Albany) since its inception in Albany, New York in 1991. The gallery director and author of The Art of the Authoress of Anastasia, Anastasia Again: The Hidden Mystery of the Romanovs and later Grand Duchess Anastasia: Still a Mystery?, J (Johannes) Froebel-Parker, commissioned Barbara to create a formal portrait of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov as an adult in traditional Russian Imperial court costume. The author visited the artist in Catskill, New York to discuss the project and interview her about its genesis.
Grand Duchess Anastasia: Still a Mystery?
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Barbara was born in Brooklyn, New York 1942 and began drawing from the time she was a child, essentially focusing on portraits. She has always been fascinated by faces and people. From Mike Tyson in the Catskill, New York gym in which he trained, to studies of the victims of the Holocaust, to ballet dancers, she has always tried to find more than the physical likeness of a model or subject, namely the “mystery” of each person. Each painting or drawing deals with a unique mystery which affects the external nature which can be revealed. She graduated 1960 from Erasmus Hall High School in the same class as Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fisher. Green attended New York University from 1960-1964 where she attained a B.S. in Art Education; she studied at Arts Students’ League on 57th Street, New York, then at the National Academy of Art (New York City) after which she graduated with an MFA from Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Barbara studied with Moses Sawyer, Robert Beverly Hale, and her then future husband, Francis Eugene (F.E.) Green. Her work is included in the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York and was featured on HBO in a special about Mike Tyson. Her portraits are held in the Jewish Museum of Religion at Hebrew Union College (New York City), while her catalogues are included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art archives. Mrs. Mario (Matilda) Cuomo, then first lady of New York State, visited Froebel Gallery in Albany, New York with students she was mentoring to view Barbara’s Holocaust themed exhibition- Der Zirkus Beginnt (The Circus Begins).
Green and Froebel-Parker discussed the painter’s artistic journey with the personage of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna Romanov of Russia and the lady known as “Evgenia Smetisko,” the theme of Froebel-Parker’s newest book, Grand Duchess Anasasia: Still a Mystery?
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