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Helen Alice Tanner Brodt

Helen Alice Tanner Brodt (1838 - 1908) was active/lived in California.  Helen Brodt is known for Landscape, still life, portrait.

Helen Brodt is best known for her landscapes of western scenes and pioneer portraits. She was born in Vermont, December 30, 1837, the daughter of Sally Wells and Tanner. Raised in New York, she attended the National Academy of Design. In 1861, she married Aurelius W. Brodt (b. NY in 1836 d. 1922) and followed him two years later to Red Bluff, California, where he was a schoolteacher and painter. They had three children.

While teaching and raising a family, she painted ranch scenes, missions, landscapes, and pioneer portraits in Red Bluff, Petaluma, Oakland, and Berkeley. Her "Carmel Mission" depicts the venerable building when no other structures around it were yet erected, as in her 1892 painting of the mission which has appeared on the back cover of a California History Quarterly Index.

Helen was also a teacher and had influence on other notable artists, among them Arthur Mathews, the painter, muralist, and craftsman. Mathews was born in Markesan, Wisconsin in 1860, b   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2770 characters.]  Artist bio

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