 In 1949, she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government, in recognition of her services to French cinema.She died 22 December 1969, in Marseilles.The cinema studies scholar Haidee Wasson argues that under Barry's direction the MoMA's Film Library, the first American institution of film art, created the cultural and intellectual climate that allowed "selected films to become visible to an emergent public under the rubrics of art and history," served as a "promulgator of discourses about cultural value and productive leisure," and consequently defined "what objects and media matter within the politics of cultural value and visual knowledge".