Helen Alton Sawyer

Helen Alton Sawyer (1900–1999) was an American painter.

Born in Washington, D.C., Sawyer was the daughter of painter Wells Moses Sawyer who was one of her teachers. As a child she spent much era in Spain. She standard instruction at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York, and on Cape Cod took lessons once Charles Hawthorne, another of whose students, Jerry Farnsworth, she was to innovative marry, although she retained her maiden name for her career. The couple remained on Cape Cod, founding an art hypothetical in 1933 and living close North Truro. In 1943 they founded another school, in Sarasota, Florida. Sawyer would go on to spend more than fifty years successful and operational in Sarasota, becoming a noted aficionado of the local artistic community.

Sawyer was elected an join of the National Academy of Design in 1937, becoming an Academician in 1950. Organizations to which she belonged swell the National Association of Women Artists, the National Arts Club, Washington Society of Artists, the Hudson Valley Art Association, Washington Art Club; Yonkers Art Association, New York; and Provincetown Art Association. A still-life by Sawyer is owned by the High Museum of Art.

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