ID#:
X.4868.000001
Description:
Z. Vanessa Helder
1904 — 1968
Bellingham Tulip Annual Program Cover, 1922
Anonymous Gift
This is an early work by Zama Vanessa Helder that shows her interest in illustration. She may have studied with Elizabeth Colborne, who illustrated many books. Helder is known today for her precisionist watercolors commissioned in 1939 by the United State Bureau of Reclamation to document the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. During this time she was hired by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) to teach at the Spokane Art Center.
Born in Lynden, WA, she lived in Seattle and Spokane until relocating to California in 1943. A major accomplishment for Helder was the inclusion of her paintings in the seminal art exhibition Realists and Magic Realists, where her work was exhibited alongside that of Ivan Albright, Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943.
1904 — 1968
Bellingham Tulip Annual Program Cover, 1922
Anonymous Gift
This is an early work by Zama Vanessa Helder that shows her interest in illustration. She may have studied with Elizabeth Colborne, who illustrated many books. Helder is known today for her precisionist watercolors commissioned in 1939 by the United State Bureau of Reclamation to document the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. During this time she was hired by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) to teach at the Spokane Art Center.
Born in Lynden, WA, she lived in Seattle and Spokane until relocating to California in 1943. A major accomplishment for Helder was the inclusion of her paintings in the seminal art exhibition Realists and Magic Realists, where her work was exhibited alongside that of Ivan Albright, Edward Hopper, and Andrew Wyeth at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943.
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