Spokane Art Center
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The Spokane Art Center in Spokane, Washington, was a community art school opened in 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. Its staff inclu
Spokane Art Center, front entrance, 1939. Photographer unknown. Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution.
Z. Vanessa Helder
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Z. Vanessa Helder was an American watercolor painter who gained national attention in the 1930s/40s, mainly for her paintings of scenes in Eastern Washington. She painted with a bold, Precisionist sty
Spokane Art Center
…who had been hired by Inverarity. The teaching staff included, at various times, artists Robert Engard, Guy Anderson, Clyfford Still, Hilda Grossman, Z. Vanessa Helder, Joseph Solman, Margaret Tomkins, James FitzGerald, Kenneth Downer, and Ruth Egri. FitzGerald eventually took over from Morris as the center's director…
Z. Vanessa Helder, c. 1945
Petit Mansion, 1942, Z. Vanessa Helder.
Sand and Gravel Works, ca. 1940, Z. Vanessa Helder. Collection of Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.