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1962 Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting "Little Sun"
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Dorothy Heller
"Little Sun"
1962
Oil on Canvas
22 1/2" x 17 3/4", Framed 24 1/2"x19 1/2"
Signed in paint …
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Dorothy Heller
"Little Sun"
1962
Oil on Canvas
22 1/2" x 17 3/4", Framed 24 1/2"x19 1/2"
Signed in paint lower right and on reverse
Abstract expressionist painting by "the finest woman painter in America", Dorothy Heller (1916-2003). Signed in paint on lower right, she was a student of Hans Hoffman. Signed, dated 1962 and entitled, "Little Sun" on reverse. Canvas measures, 22 1/2" x 17 3/4", overall, 24 1/2" x 2" x 19 1/2". Light wood frame. This piece was acquired in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dorothy Heller Bio
Dorothy Heller’s career as an artist spanned over five decades, from 1942 to the mid-1990s. By 1950, her works were abstract expressionist, many with urban or untamed nature themes. The work evolved into a humanistic period, beginning in the early 1960s, during which she explored human sensibility and intellect: the roles of literature and poets, life and death cycles, world religions, and symbols.
Heller (1916-2003) lived and worked in New York City. She studied at the National Academy of Design and, later, with Hans Hofmann.
She was active in the New York art world in the 1950s through 1970s and her solo exhibitions and works in group exhibitions were well-received. Her work appeared in numerous group exhibitions including the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Whitney Museum Annual, and Piccadilly Gallery, London.
David Hass of northwest London, notes that the reviewer’s rundown of women painters in New York in the 1950s omits a certain Dorothy Heller, who, according to Hass (I wonder what his source is), was once named by Clement Greenberg as “the finest woman painter in America,” adding that she exhibited with the Tibor de Nagy, Poindexter, and Betty Parsons Galleries.
Walter Wickiser Gallery
Dorothy Heller studied at the Art Students League and later with Hans Hofmann. Her Abstract Expressionist Art Works were well received by the "Art World" during the 1950s through the 1970s; she was ranked along with the best of the Abstract Expressionists at that time. Her Abstract Expressionist work has not had much exposure since then. In the 80s and 90s she evolved a more mystical/symbolic style which was championed and shown by Betty Parsons; she died in 2003.
A large selection of her work, approximately 200 paintings and 1,000 drawings are being put up for distribution to the public, either through selected lots to galleries, direct sales from the "Heller Studio" or to museums. Photographs and some drawings can be viewed by appointment; most of the art work is in the Heller Studio located in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
The Donnell Library – New York, NY 1979
St. Peters Church - New York, NY 1979
Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1978
Transcendental Art Center - New York, NY 1977
Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1976
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA 1976
Cathedral of St. John the Divine - New York, NY 1976
Fair Lawn Library - Fair Lawn, NJ 1975
Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1972
East Hampton Gallery - New York, NY 1963
Poindexter Gallery - New York, NY 1957
Poindexter Gallery - New York, NY 1956
Galerie Facchetti - Paris France 1955
Tibor de Nagy - New York, NY 1953
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Betty Stoller - New York, NY 1980
The Otis Art Institute - Los Angeles, CA 1979
Betty Parsons Gallery - New York, NY 1972 thru 1979
Drew University - Madison, NJ 1977
C. W. Post College - Long Island, NY 1975
Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Buffalo, NY 1974
University of California Art Museum - Berkeley, CA 1974
New York Cultural Center “Women Choose Women” - New York, NY 1973
Piccadilly Gallery - London, England 1967
Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT 1964
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) Traveling Exhibition 1963
Carnegie International - Pittsburgh, PA 1959
Carnegie Endowment Center - New York, NY 1958
Whitney Museum Annual - New York, NY 1956
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN 1955
Galerie Prismes - Paris, France 1955
Stable Gallery Annual - New York, NY 1953
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO 1953
PUBLIC & MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Smithsonian Archives of American Art - Washington, DC 1977, 1981, 2012
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, NY 1990
Zimmerli Museum - Paris, France 1954, 1990
Channel 13 Collection - New York, NY 1964, 1972, 1977
Donnell Library Collection - New York, NY 1976
Johnson Museum at Cornell University 1970
University of California Art Museum - Berkeley, CA 1961
Chicago Art Institute - Chicago, IL 1957
Greenville County Museum of Art - Greenville, NC 1956
Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin, OH 1956
Museum of Modern Art - Haifa, Israel 1956
Whitney Museum - New York, NY 1955
Denver Art Museum - Denver, CO 1953
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Lenny Lipka Private Collection 1963-1966
Waldamar Hansen Private Collection 1964-1995
Russell Bush Private Collection 1964-1995
Arthur Minters Private Collection 1957-1965
Michelle Oka & Frederick Doner Private Collection 1964-1981
Andrew Heller Private Collection 1948-1983
Boris & Deborah Ostrovsky Private Collection 1963-1989
Arthur &Anita Kahn Private Collection 1974-1989
Barbara Nylund et al Private Collection 1993-2001
Charles Poncé Private Collection 1970-1999
William Thompson & Julie Jones Private Collection 2012
ARTICLES & LECTURES
Christian Science Monitor, article author Theo Wolff 05/22/79
Meditation Today, cover and article 09/76
Smithsonian Institution, Lecture by Betty Parsons 04/76
Christian Science Monitor, article author Diana Loercher 10/22/76
Arts Magazine, article author Noel Frackman 04/76
Art News, article author James Mellow 11/72
Arts Magazine, article author Cindy Nemser 10/72
Carnegie Endowment Center, Lecture by Charles Poncé 02/71
La Presse, Montreal, article author Simone Auger 03/63
Art News, article author Irving Sandler 03/63
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Who’s Who in American Women 1977/1978
Who’s Who in the East 1977
International Women’s Year Award 1976
Who’s Who in American Art 1973
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1973
GENERAL INFORMATION
Heller Studio, c/o Joseph Grunig, Unit 1F, 685 West End Ave,
NY, NY 10025 T 212-866-5800, HellerStudio@verizon.net
Dorothy Heller was born in New York City on June 15, 1916
and died in New York City on November 26, 2003.
Paintings on Linen: Approximately 450, of which approximately
100 sold or distributed
Works on Paper: Approximately 3,000, of which approximately
400 sold or distributed
Genres: (approximate dates)
Early period 1940s
Abstract Expressionist period 1949 to 1964
Mystical images 1965 to 1974
Symbolic images 1975 to 2003
Locations where works were created:
1940-1945 Various shared studios in New York City
1941-1942 Classes with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, MA
1945-1948 TB sanatorium Denver, CO
1949-1950 Studio in Denver, CO
1951-2003 Permanent studio at 8 West 13th St, New York City
1954 Studio in Paris, France
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- Dimensions
- 19.5ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 24.5ʺH
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Canvas
- Oil Paint
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Orange
- Condition Notes
- Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history. Could benefit from professional cleaning. Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history. Could benefit from professional cleaning. less
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