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About Helen W. Phelps
Born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1864, Helen Watson Phelps would establish herself in New York City. She was one of the hundreds of American art students who sought training at the Académie Julian in Paris, where her instructors were Tony Robert-Fleury and Raphaël Collin. In 1886 her painting In the Cloister was exhibited in the Paris Salon. Two years later she began exhibiting at the Boston Art Club then occasionally her works appeared in other important national shows: at the National Academy of Design (1892-95), at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1899 and 1906), and at the Corcoran Gallery (1907 and 1910). These works were largely genre scenes and portraits. At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (1901) she won a prize for The Reflection and The Dreamer. According to Falk, her specialties were elegant society portraits and images of immigrant children and European fisherfolk. Phelps died in 1944. |
Paintings by Helen W. Phelps
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| oil on canvas: 20 x 14 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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