 Helena DeKay is primarily known as Helena DeKay Gilder
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Helena Gilder, although a painter, is perhaps better known as a founder of the Society of American Artists and the Art Students League, two institutions that broke the strangle hold of the old-guard National Academy of Design. DeKay studied privately with Winslow Homer and John La Farge, and also at the Cooper Union Institute and the National Academy of Design. She and her friend, Maria Oakey, attended the first life-drawing class that was opened to women at the Academy, in 1871.
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