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Title is Grand Canyon. 7 1/4" by 12". Provenance: From the Estate of Ernest Blumenschein Helen Greene Blumenschein (1909 - 1989) was active/lived in New Mexico, New York. Helen Blumenschein is known for Landscape, pueblo scenes, figure and portrait painting, illustration. Helen Greene Blumenschein became a painter of Southwest landscapes, an illustrator, lithographer, and amateur archaeologist. She was the daughter of Ernest Blumenschein (1874-1960), a member of the first generation of Taos artists, and his artist wife, Mary Blumenschein (1869-1958). Helen grew up in both New York City and Taos, moving to the New Mexico town at age ten with her parents in 1919. She had an interest in art from the time she was a youngster and pursuing that focus, she graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn. Then in 1929, she traveled in Europe with her mother and studied with Andre Lhote. Returning to Taos, she focused on lithography and silk screening, and took lessons in those subjects at the Art Students League part of each year from 1932 to 1934. From that time, she traveled extensively, but ever returned to Taos. During World War II, she was in the Women's Army Corps in the South Pacific. In addition to Southwest landscapes, her paintings have a wide range of subjects including scenes of Europe and New York as well as landscapes of Arizona and the Grand Tetons. She worked in a variety of mediums: oil, watercolor, ink, silk screen, lithography, and charcoal. She exhibited extensively, and venues included the National Academy of Design, Carnegie Institute, Paris Salon, New York World's Fair, and Venice, Italy. She had a three-person exhibition with her parents at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff in 1979. Provenance: From the Estate of Ernest Blumenschein