In 1902, Helen and Frank DuMond began visiting Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he directed the Summer School of Painting while continuing to teach in New York, and where they eventually purchased a home in 1906. Around this time, Helen began producing her brightly colored plein air landscapes, such as Connecticut Hills.

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Helen Savier was born in 1872 to a prominent Portland, Oregon, family. As a young woman, she moved east to study at the Art Students League with Robert Brandegee and with renowned teacher and American Impressionist, Frank Vincent DuMond, whom she would later marry. She continued her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1897 and 1898.

She was a member of the National Arts Club, the Art Workers Club, and the Catherine Wolfe Art Club. In the 1920s and 1930s, Frank DuMond also taught summer classes in Cape Breton, where Helen found inspiration in the pristine, rolling hills of Nova Scotia. The artist exhibited her paintings at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC.

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

To private collection, Connecticut

With Shannon's Auction, Milford, Connecticut, June 2018

To collection of Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts, June 2018 to present