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Helena Adele Dunlap

Helena Adele Dunlap (1876 - 1955) was active/lived in California.  Helena Dunlap is known for Figure and landscape painting, graphics, genre.

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Helena Dunlap was best known for her involvement in the California Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements, and her paintings are a reflection of both disciplines. Considered a radical at the time in the early 1900's, she helped pave the way for future modernist painters. Although her early style was noticeably based on the Impressionistic values of a bright palette and deliberate brush strokes, her later work reflects a shift to Modernism.

Dunlap was a native Californian, born in Los Angeles in 1876. She attended both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, studying under William Merritt Chase in New York and later with Andre L'hote in Paris. Dunlap exhibited some of her paintings when she returned to Los Angeles from Paris in 1911 and was immediately labeled a "Modernist". She shocked the local art scene with her controversial painting style, which her critics considered "unrealistic". She painted everyday objects that were composed of la   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4808 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Helena Adele Dunlap

   Publications  Book References:  28
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Helena Adele Dunlap
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Rail January 2005 Porter, Dean A Yes
American Art Review Focus on the Figure August 2001 Martin, Gloria Rexford Yes
American Art Review Impressionism to Modernism August 2000 Vure, Sarah Yes
Art of the West Tradition Lives On/CA Art Club June 2000 Stavig, Vickie Yes
American Art Review California Progressives November 1996 Anderson, Susan Yes
28 Book References for Helena Adele Dunlap
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor) Emerging from the Shadows: Volume One (A-D) A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960 0 Yes
2012 Fahlman, Betsy; (Essay); Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, (Directory) Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945
(Exhibition catalog)
92 Yes
2008 Kovinic, Marian, Dr. Will South, Julia Armstrong-Totten (Pasadena Museum of California Art) A Seed of Modernism- The Art Students League of Los Angeles
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Gerdts, William; Will South California Impressionism 284 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Moore, Sylvia (editor) Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists 378 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)
600 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1940 Klug, William L (Introductory Essay) Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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