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Helen Ferne Slimp Art

American, 1890-1995

Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas. “She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, died on October 29,1995. Slimp's instructors were a Who's Who of American Artists, including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young and José Arpa.

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Artist: Helen Ferne Slimp
"Seated Nude" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist
By Helen Ferne Slimp
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 17 Frame Size: 30 x 24 Medium: Pencil Drawing Date: 1932 "Seated" Nude Biography Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas. “She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005. Helen Ferne Slimp's instructors were a "Who's Who" of American artists including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young, and Jose Arpa. Please view my store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...
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1930s Realist Helen Ferne Slimp Art

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Carbon Pencil

"Bather" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist
By Helen Ferne Slimp
Located in San Antonio, TX
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 17 Frame Size: 30 x 24 Medium: Pencil Drawing 1931 "Bather" Nude Biography Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995) A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas. “She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005. Helen Ferne Slimp's instructors were a "Who's Who" of American artists including Randall Davey, Ernest Lawson, Fremont Ellis, Gerald Cassidy, Harry Anthony De Young, and Jose Arpa. Please view my store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings...
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1930s Realist Helen Ferne Slimp Art

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Carbon Pencil

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