Helen Mae Gleiforst - "Still Life with Gladiolas"
Painting, Oil on Canvas, 30" x 30".
It was in the late 1920s that Helen Mae Gleiforst began to paint and draw. Her teachers included Nicolai Fechin, George Melcher, and John Hubbard Rich. Her instruction with Dedrick Stuber influenced her landscapes and Nell Walker Warner influenced her floral paintings. By the mid-1930s she had established a local reputation as an artist.
Helen became a frequent exhibitor at one-person shows in local venues, and in the 1950s she exhibited at Stanford University. With her husband's retirement in 1960 she began to travel throughout California where she painted many of her landscapes.
She stopped her artistic work in the 1980s because of poor health. The full extent of her output became evident after her death when an heir discovered approximately 300 paintings stored in her home. These works show the strong impressionist expression of her work that was characteristic of the early plein-air painters of California.
Gleiforst died in Los Angeles, California on May 28, 1997.
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