Helen Ferne Slimp"Seated Nude" Nude drawing by San Antonio Texas Artist1931
1931
About the Item
- Creator:Helen Ferne Slimp (1890 - 1995, American)
- Creation Year:1931
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 4 in (10.16 cm)
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- Condition:Some non distracting wrinkling. Presents extremely well. Fresh conservation matting and new frame. Please view my 1stdibs store front for other Great Vintage Texas Paintings & Fine American Art. We carry Vintage, Mid Century & Contemporary.
- Gallery Location:San Antonio, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU76932413543
Helen Ferne Slimp
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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