Helen Tanner Brodt
Helen Tanner Brodt (born April 21, 1838 in Elmira , NY as Helen Tanner; † March 10, 1908 Berkeley , CA ) was an American landscape and portrait painter.
She grew up in Upstate New York and studied at the National Academy of Design in 1854 . In 1861 she married the painter Aurelius Webster Brodt (1836-1922) and moved with him in 1863 to Red Bluff , California. She worked as a teacher, and Arthur Mathews (1860-1945) was her student in 1867 in high school. From 1875 to 1885 she taught at various schools in Oakland , where she also had a studio. Brodt painted ranch scenes, mission stations, landscapes and portrayed pioneers. She was also active as a porcelain painter.
She successfully exhibited at the New Orleans Exposition (1880 first prize), the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) and the California Midwinter International Exposition (1894).
Works by her are owned by the Bancroft Library of the UC Berkeley , California Historical Society ; Stanford University , Society of California Pioneers ; Oakland Museum , Storer Collection at Harper's Ferry and California State Library .
She was the first woman to climb Mt. Lassen and is therefore the namesake for Karsee Lake Helen on Lassen Peak .
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- Hughes, Artists in California , 71. after Artprice
- In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement by Doreen Bolger Burke , Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City ( digitized from Google Books )
- Doerte Achilles: Brodt, Helen Tanner . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Addendum 4, Saur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22864-3 , p. 25.
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| SURNAME | Brodt, Helen Tanner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American landscape and portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elmira , NY |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1908 |
| Place of death | Berkeley , CA |