Helen Campbell Brown New Zealand, 1917-86
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About Helen Campbell Brown
A New Zealand artist, Helen Brown was born in 1917, and attended classes at the Elam School of Fine art from from 1940 to 1946. Working in oil, watercolour and tempera she painted simplified scenes of the Auckland area. In the 1940s. She was active in the Rutland Group in Auckland formed by students from the Elam School, with whom she exhibited. She also worked as a commercial designer for for 35 years.
The total number of works by Helen Brown offered for sale by auction since 1988 is 327, of which 256 (78%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $9,972 for Houses of Grafton sold by Dunbar Sloane in June 2019. This year 7 works have been offered for sale. Works by Helen Brown are held by the Museum Of New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery and Christchurch Art Gallery.
Helen Campbell Brown is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- Gil Docking, with additions by Michael Gunn covering 1970-90. Two Hundred Years of New Zealand Painting, David Bateman Ltd., New Zealand, 1990 Page 150
- McGahey, Kate. The Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists Painters Printmakers Sculptors, Gilt Edge Publishing, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000. Page 29
- The Find New Zealand Artists web site: a database of artist names that directs researchers to the rich resources found in New Zealand's libraries, art society exhibition histories and published sources.
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