Riva Helfond Prints and Multiples
American, b. 1910
Riva Helfond, painter, printmaker and educator, was born in Brooklyn. She studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League, both in New York. Helfond taught in the WPA/FAP programs in New York from 1936–41 and was on the creative staff of their graphics division. In 1964, she taught printmaking at New York University, and since 1980, has been on the faculty of Union College, Cranford, New Jersey. Her work can be seen in the collections of the California State Museum, Los Angeles; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Cincinnati Museum; Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Miami Museum of Fine Art; Museum of Modern Art; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Miami Center for Fine Arts; New York Public Library, Print Collection and the Boston Public Library Print Collection. Helfond has exhibited widely and is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Society of American Graphic Artists Award for Outstanding Collograph. Her work is included in the Archives of American Art.
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Artist: Riva Helfond
Polo Players
By Riva Helfond
Located in Raleigh, NC
A wonderful screen print by Riva Helfond depicting a pair of polo players on horseback.
Helfond is known for her participation in the WPA and for her screen prints.
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1940s American Realist Riva Helfond Prints and Multiples
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Soldiers
By Riva Helfond
Located in Raleigh, NC
A WW2 themed screen print by New York City artist Riva Helfond depicting soldiers in a convoy.
Helfond is well known for her participation in the WPA and for her screen prints.
Signe...
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1940s American Realist Riva Helfond Prints and Multiples
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Warming Up
By Riva Helfond
Located in Raleigh, NC
A wonderful silk screen print by Riva Helfond of Air Force soldiers preparing a plane for action.
Signed in the image in ink and signed, titled "Warming Up", and numbered 30/45 in th...
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WPA Woman Artist Modernist Abstract Print
By Riva Helfond
Located in Surfside, FL
Riva Helfond (1910–2002) was an American artist and printmaker best known for her social realist studies of working people's lives.
Riva Helfond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. She spent some of her childhood in Russia and returned to New York at the age of eleven, living in New York or New Jersey for most of the rest of her life. Between 1928 and 1940, she studied at the School of Industrial Art and the Art Students League; her teachers included William von Schlegell, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Morris Kantor for painting and Harry Sternberg for printmaking. Among her fellow students were Alexander Brook and her future husband, the sculptor William (Bill) Barrett.
Helfond began teaching in the College Art Association Program (1933–36) and then taught printmaking at the Harlem Arts Community Center (1936–38). Initially she taught lithography alongside Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and others before moving to the graphic arts division, where she worked with Louis Lozowick and Jacob Kainen, and the silkscreen division, which was supervised by Anthony Velonis and which had Harry Gottlieb and Elizabeth Olds...
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