Art No. 3908
Artist : Helen Henderson Chain (1849-1892)
Like many artists living west of the Mississippi River, Helen Henderson Chain first made a name for herself as a art teacher. After settling in Denver in 1871, she founded the first art school in the city in 1877 and often took her students to the Rocky Mountains to paint directly from nature. She later helped found two art clubs that gave women an opportunity to exhibit their work: the Le Brun Art Club, organized in 1891, and the Artists’ Club of Denver, established in 1893.
Chain was also one of the first artists to exhibit paintings of the New Mexico pueblos and other iconic Western scenes at the National Academy of Design in New York. By the time of her death in 1892, she was considered to be one of the most important artists of the Western landscape, and she was especially well known for her painting Mount of the Holy Cross which she painted just two years after the mountain was featured in one of Thomas Moran’s large paintings.
Lived/Active: Colorado, USA
Known for: Mountains, marine, pueblos, mining
Oil Painting on Canvas Panel
Title : Flower
14-1/2" x 40"
Signed
Original Frame
$3,000
Like many artists living west of the Mississippi River, Helen Henderson Chain first made a name for herself as a art teacher. After settling in Denver in 1871, she founded the first art school in the city in 1877 and often took her students to the Rocky Mountains to paint directly from nature. She later helped found two art clubs that gave women an opportunity to exhibit their work: the Le Brun Art Club, organized in 1891, and the Artists’ Club of Denver, established in 1893.
Chain was also one of the first artists to exhibit paintings of the New Mexico pueblos and other iconic Western scenes at the National Academy of Design in New York. By the time of her death in 1892, she was considered to be one of the most important artists of the Western landscape, and she was especially well known for her painting Mount of the Holy Cross which she painted just two years after the mountain was featured in one of Thomas Moran’s large paintings.
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