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| Born in Wellington Kansas, Helen Chandler became known as an accomplished painter, illustrator and etcher. She spent most of her career in Los Angeles teaching art at UCLA, and after retirement moved to Pomona where she died in 1961.
When she was four years old, she moved with her family to Louisiana and lived and was raised on the Audubon plantation on Bayou Manchac. By 1898, she was living in the Bay area of California and settled in Berkeley where she studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute. She also studied at the Academie Delecluse in Paris and was a sculpture student of Frederick MacMonnies from 1900 to 1901. She returned to California for several years and then went to New York where she attended Columbia University Teachers College. She also studied with Arthur Dow and Birge Harrison.
Returning to California, she taught at the State Normal School in Los Angeles and the following year, at the California College of Arts and Crafts (1910 to 1914) and then took a position at UCLA where she remained from 1916 to 1959.
Chandler worked in the mediums of oil, watercolor, charcoal, and monotypes and did a wide range of subjects in the eastern and western United States including the Bay Area, Monterey, Nevada, Utah
She was a member of the California Watercolor Society and the Society of Etchers.
Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Phil and Marian Kovinick, "Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the West" |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| | Born Wellington, Jan. 20, 1881; died Pomona, CA, Feb. 21, 1961. Painter, specialized in landscapes. Illustrator. Etcher. Craftsman. Teacher. When she was four, she moved with family to Louisiana and raised on the Audubon plantation on Bayou Manchac. By 1898 she was living in California and studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute. She also studied in Paris. She was a pupil of Frederick MacMonnies, Birge Harrison, and Arthur W. Dow. Returned to California to live in Berkeley from 1904-06 then attended the Teachers College at Columbia University, New York graduating in 1908. Returned again to California to teach at the State Normal School in Los Angeles, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and the University of California, Los Angeles where she remained from 1916-59. | Source:
MEMBERSHIPS:
San Francisco Art Association; California Society of Etchers; California Watercolor Society.
SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Dawdy 2: Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2. Chicago: Swallow Press, 1981.; Collins, Jim, and Glenn B. Opitz, eds. Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present (1790-1980). Rev. and enl. ed. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Apollo, 1980.; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-194727; Reinbach, Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585., Edna, comp. “Kansas Art and Artists”, in Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. v. 17, 1928. p. 571-585.; Sain, Lydia. Kansas Artists, compiled by Lydia Sain from 1932 to 1948. Typed Manuscript, 1948.; Newlin, Gertrude Dix (Development of Art in Kansas. Typed Manuscript, 1951); Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, with an Addendum containing Corrections and Additional Material on the Original Entries. Compiled by James F. Carr. New York: James F. Carr Publ., 1965.; American Art Annual. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1898-194712, 14,18, 20, 22, 24, 26; AskArt, www.askart.com, accessed Sept. 2, 2005; Kovinick, Phil and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.. | | This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas. |
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Helen Chandler is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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