Helen Slimp (1890 - 1995)
Paintings
- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 12 x 16
- Frame: 18 1/2 x 22 1/2
- Medium: Oil on Board
- "Bluebonnets"
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 24 x 17
- Frame: 30 x 24
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- 1931
- "Bather" Nude
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 18 x 22
- Frame: 24 x 29
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- 1931
- "May" Nude
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 24 x 17
- Frame: 30 x 24
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- 1932
- "Seated" Nude
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 12 x 16
- Frame: 16 x 20
- Medium: Oil
- Bluebonnet
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- Helen Slimp
- (1890 - 1995)
- San Antonio Artist
- Size: 17 x 24
- Frame: 24 x 30
- Medium: Pencil Drawing
- 1931
- "Mexican Malay Type" Nude
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Biography
Helen Slimp(1890 - 1995) San Antonio Artist
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 Gutzon 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, 1995.
