Mears, Helen

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Title

Mears, Helen

Cornish Dates

1901 or earlier to ?

Birth

21 Dec 1872
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Death

17 Feb 1916
New York, New York

Non-Cornish Residence

New York, New York

Profession

Sculptor

Location Studied

Art Institute of Chicago
Art Students League
State Normal School (Wisconsin)

Studied Under

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Lorado Taft
Alexandre Charpentier
Denys Puech
Frederick MacMonnies

Affiliations

White Rabbits
National Academy of Design
MacDowell Club
MacDowell Colony

Awards

Silver, Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, MO, 1904)

Other Events

Chicago World's Fair

Sources

Colby, Virginia Reed and James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past: Images of Cornish, New Hampshire & the Cornish Colony (Cornish NH: Cornish Historical Society, 2010), 489.

Thayer Tolles, Lauretta Dimmick, and Donna J Hassle, American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, v.2: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Between 1865 and 1885 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), 541.

Helen Mears - Wikipedia

Helen Mears biographical summary

Citation

“Mears, Helen,” The Cornish Colony Compendium, accessed September 19, 2024, https://cornishcolony.org/items/show/532.