Biography from Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum:
| Helen King Boyer was born December 16, 1910 in Pittsburgh, to artist Louise Rive King Boyer and architect Ernest Wilson Boyer. She moved to New York City in 1948, where she held a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant for a year.
She spent five years learning a silk-painting process developed by French chemist Penoir, and then worked as a painter for his daughter, Rosalyn Penoir. Boyer also painted original ties and yard goods for Lord & Taylor, along with her original paintings.
In 1960, she and her mother Louise moved to Kansas City, MO, where Helen became an artist and designer for the Superior Toy & Novelty Company. Helen King Boyer also spent several years doing landscaping/garden design for the grounds of Corinthian Hall, home of the Kansas City Museum.
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