Helen Gilbert
Illustration — Licomos, a kinetic sculpture by Helen Gilbert, 1970, polarized light, painted Plexiglass and wooden box, Honolulu Museum of Art, Helen Gilbert (1922 – 8 April 2002), also known as Helen Gilbert-Bushnell, Helen Odell Gilbert and Helen Odell, was an American artist and art-educator born in Mare Island, California. She earned a baccalaureate in art at Mills College, in California. After graduation, she moved to Honolulu, where she married Honolulu physician Fred Gilbert.
Also recorded as Helen Odell Gilbert · Helen Gilbert-Bushnell · Helen Odell · Gilbert, Helen, 1922-2002
Helen Gilbert
- Born
- 1922. · Mare Island.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor and artist.
- Education
- Mills College at Northeastern University and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Illustration — Licomos, a kinetic sculpture by Helen Gilbert, 1970, polarized light, painted Plexiglass and wooden box, Honolulu Museum of Art, Helen Gilbert (1922 – 8 April 2002), also known as Helen Gilbert-Bushnell, Helen Odell Gilbert and Helen Odell, was an American artist and art-educator born in Mare Island, California. She earned a baccalaureate in art at Mills College, in California. After graduation, she moved to Honolulu, where she married Honolulu physician Fred Gilbert.
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Born at Mare Island in 1922, died in 2012.
Helen Gilbert studied at Mills College at Northeastern University and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The field of work recorded is lithography, graphic arts and printmaking. Places of work recorded in the authority are Honolulu. Employment is recorded with University of Hawaiʻi System. Work by Helen Gilbert is recorded in the collections of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Vanderbilt Museum of Art.
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- 1.Helen Gilbert - Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- 2.Wright, Walter, "Artist, UH professor Helen Gilbert-Bushnell dead at 80", Honolulu Advertiser.
- 3.Shapiro, Treena, "Painter's work occupied museums around world", Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
- 4.Wisnosky, John and Tom Klobe, A Tradition of Excellence, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, 2002, page 58.
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