Helen Stewart b.

  • Artist (Painter)
New Zealand born painter, Helen Stewart studied at the School of Art in London, La Grande Chaumière and Colarossi's in Paris in 1927. In Sydney she studied under Thea Proctor at Julian Ashton's Sydney School of Art. In 1932, Stewart attended Iain McNab's Grosvenor School in London and studied under André Lhote in Paris.

painter, was born in Wellington, New Zealand, another Kiwi like Maud Sherwood who came to Sydney after studying in England and Europe. She attended an art school in London in 1927, then went to Paris and studied at La Grande Chaumiè re and at Colarossi’s. In Sydney she studied under Thea Proctor at Julian Ashton 's Sydney School of Art. She went overseas again and attended Iain McNab’s Grosvenor School in London and André Lhote’s classes in Paris in 1932, then returned to New Zealand permanently. Her work was extensively reviewed in Sydney between 1934 and 1945 (see Ambrus) as an extreme form of eccentricity in modern art.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011