Dorothy Heller

Dorothy Heller
Born1917 (1917)
New York, New York
Died2003 (aged 85–86)
New York, New York
Known forPainting
MovementAbstract Expressionism

Dorothy Heller (1917 – 2003) was an American painter.

Born in New York City,[1] Heller was an Abstract Expressionist who studied at the Art Students League of New York and was a pupil of Hans Hoffman.[2] She worked in acrylic, and exhibited widely during her career in solo and group shows throughout the United States.[1] Her work was included in 1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[3] Three of her drawings, two nudes and a figure study, are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4] and her work may also be found in the collections of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.[1] A collection of her papers and other miscellany is held by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
  2. ↑ "Dorothy Heller Galleries". Dorothyhellerartworks.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  3. ↑ "1956 Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  4. ↑ "Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". Metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  5. ↑ "Dorothy Heller papers, 1947-circa 1981; | Archives of American Art". Aaa.si.edu. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-02-25.


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