Helen Slimp "May" Nude
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Image Size: 18 x 22
- Frame Size: 24 x 29
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- 1931
- "May" Nude
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Biography
Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995)
A Virginia native, Helen Ferne Slimp was a lifelong artist, who worked in oils, lithography, stained glass and china painting. She was a friend of Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzam Borglum and art patron Marion Koogler McNay, painted alongside the Onderdonks and was a teacher to Porfirio Salinas.
“She liked that modern stuff,” Slimp said of McNay in the Express-News in 1990, on her 100th birthday. “I never cared for it myself. I thought an apple should look like an apple.”Chester Slimp died in 1965, but Helen Slimp lived to be 105, dying Oct. 29, 2005.
