Remembered primarily for her cover art for "Vogue" magazine in the early 1900s, Helen Dryden reflected various styles including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. She also created Japanese-style prints,... Read full biography
Remembered primarily for her cover art for "Vogue" magazine in the early 1900s, Helen Dryden reflected various styles including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. She also created Japanese-style prints, primitive Italian painters and children's books. Her subjects "were rich and sensuous in color, witty and... Read full biography
Remembered primarily for her cover art for "Vogue" magazine in the early 1900s, Helen Dryden reflected various styles including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. She also created Japanese-style prints, primitive Italian painters and children's books. Her subjects "were rich and sensuous in color, witty and lighthearted, but also with a haughty air of elegance". (Reed 139) One of the reasons her illustrations were popular was that they reflected popular trends and changing fashions. She started with... Read full biography
Remembered primarily for her cover art for "Vogue" magazine in the early 1900s, Helen Dryden reflected various styles including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. She also created Japanese-style prints, primitive Italian painters and children's books. Her subjects "were rich and sensuous in color, witty and lighthearted, but also with a haughty air of elegance". (Reed 139) One of the reasons her illustrations were popular was that they reflected popular trends and changing fashions. She started with "Vogue" in 1911, almost from its founding, and stayed until 1923. Vogue publisher Conde Nast gave her much artistic freedom. Helen Dryden was born in Baltimore and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She first did artwork for the... Read full biography
Remembered primarily for her cover art for "Vogue" magazine in the early 1900s, Helen Dryden reflected various styles including Art Nouveau and Art Deco. She also created Japanese-style prints, primitive Italian painters and children's books. Her subjects "were rich and sensuous in color, witty and lighthearted, but also with a haughty air of elegance". (Reed 139) One of the reasons her illustrations were popular was that they reflected popular trends and changing fashions. She started with "Vogue" in 1911, almost from its founding, and stayed until 1923. Vogue publisher Conde Nast gave her much artistic freedom. Helen Dryden was born in Baltimore and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She first did artwork for the Strathmore papers and then took jobs in fashion advertising and costume design. After leaving "Vogue", she had numerous advertising clients i... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Jackets Required An Illustrated History of Book Jacket Design 1920-1950
1995
Heller, Steven/Seymour Chwast
144 pages (color)
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien
468 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
All Color Book of Art Deco (Photographs by Angelo Hornak)
1974
Klein, Dan
71 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940
Ball, Charlotte (editor)
790 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index