{{Short description|American painter (1872–1968)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Helen Savier DuMond | other_names = Helen Xavier DuMond, Helen Du Mond, Helen DuMond, Helen Dumond | birth_name = Helen Lydia Savier | birth_date = August 31, 1872 | birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1968|12|06|1872|08|31}} | death_place = Alhambra, California, U.S. | burial_place = Grassy Hill Cemetery, Lyme, Connecticut, U.S. | education = Art Students League of New York, École des Beaux-Arts | occupation = Painter, sculptor, teacher | spouse = Frank DuMond (m. 1895–1951; his death) | children = 2 }} '''Helen Savier DuMond''' (August 31, 1872 – December 6, 1968; née '''Helen Lydia Savier''') was an American painter, sculptor, and teacher, known for her plein air landscape paintings and miniature paintings.
== Early life and education == Helen Lydia Savier was born on August 31, 1872, in Portland, Oregon.<ref name="Benezit-2011">{{Cite web |date=October 31, 2011 |title=Mond, Helen Savier du |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00124494 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00124494 |archive-date=April 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250420185432/https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00124494 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her family was unsure about her study of art.<ref name="Aronson-2008">{{Cite book |last=Aronson |first=Julie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQxH-SiOJooC&pg=PA15 |title=Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women |last2=Conner |first2=Janis C. |date=2008 |publisher=Ohio University Press |isbn=978-0-8214-1800-0 |pages=15 |language=en}}</ref>
She moved to New York City to study for six months at the Art Students League of New York under Frank DuMond and Robert Bolling Brandegee; and continued her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Raphaël Collin and Luc-Olivier Merson.<ref name="Benezit-2011" /><ref name="Aronson-2008" />
== Career and late life == In March 1895, Savier married Frank DuMond her former teacher in Seattle, Washington.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XO8pAQAAMAAJ |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |date=1893 |publisher=J.T. White |pages=16 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 11, 1895 |title=Du Mond – Savier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-du-mond-savier/168171926/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=Post-Intelligencer |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318135824/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-du-mond-savier/168171926/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 26, 1908 |title=Article clipped from The Sunday Oregonian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sunday-oregonian/168172523/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Sunday Oregonian |pages=24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The DuMonds spent five years painting in France.<ref name="pg">{{cite web |title=Frank Vincent DuMond |url=http://www.piercegalleries.com/artists/iart_dumond_fv.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005004443/http://www.piercegalleries.com/artists/iart_dumond_fv.html |archive-date=October 5, 2013 |access-date= |publisher=Pierce Galleries}}</ref> Her artwork was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1897 and 1898.<ref name="Benezit-2011" />
Around 1906, the DuMond family settled in Old Lyme, Connecticut. She created numerous landscape paintings in green tones with motifs from Connecticut, Maine, and Newfoundland. She was a member of the National Arts Club, the Old Lyme Art Association, and the Art Workers Club.<ref name="Benezit-2011" /><ref name="The Day-1968">{{Cite news |date=December 12, 1968 |title=Mrs. DuMond, Noted Artist, Dies at 96 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-mrs-dumond-noted-artist-dies/168171200/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Day |pages=37 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318112231/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-mrs-dumond-noted-artist-dies/168171200/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
On February 6, 1951, her husband Frank died.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 7, 1951 |title=Frank V. DuMond, 86, Famed Old Lyme Artist, Dies in NY |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-frank-v-dumond-86-famed-old-l/168173264/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Day |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> After his death she moved to Southern California. Helen DuMond died at age 96 on December 6, 1968, in Alhambra, California.<ref name="The Day-1968" />
== List of exhibitions == * 1901, group exhibition at the "statuary court" at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, U.S.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 22, 1901 |title=Art at the Pan–American |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-herald-art-at-the-panamerican/168172176/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=Times Herald |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 24, 1901 |title=Art at Pan–American |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-times-art-at-panameric/168172328/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Philadelphia Times |pages=5 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318065834/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-times-art-at-panameric/168172328/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 7, 1901 |title=Art at the Pan–American Exposition |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-art-at-the-panam/168172420/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=Post-Intelligencer |pages=32 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318111416/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-intelligencer-art-at-the-panam/168172420/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1908, ''103rd Annual Exhibition'', gallery G in the group exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eodLAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA47 |title=Catalogue of the ... Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |date=1908 |publisher=Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts |pages=47 |language=en}}</ref> * 1912, ''Thumb Box Paintings'', group exhibition, Gill's Art Galleries, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1912-04-15 |title=Show of Thumb-Box Paintings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-springfield-daily-republican-show-of/168173805/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Springfield Daily Republican |pages=4 |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318062106/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-springfield-daily-republican-show-of/168173805/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1915, group exhibition, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, U.S.<ref>{{Cite book |last=San Francisco Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 1915 Dept of Fine Arts |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugZDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA134 |title=Official Catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (with Awards) San Francisco, California ... |date=1915 |publisher=Wahlgreen Company |pages=34 |language=en}}</ref> * 1929, ''28th Annual Exhibition'', group exhibition, Old Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1929 |title=28th Annual Exhibition of Lyme Art Association Opened |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mount-vernon-argus-28th-annual-exhibitio/168173644/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=Mount Vernon Argus |pages=6 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318100256/https://www.newspapers.com/article/mount-vernon-argus-28th-annual-exhibitio/168173644/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * 1965, group exhibition, Memorial Town Hall, Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 6, 1965 |title=Hoffman Oil Added to Art In Town Hall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-hoffman-oil-added-to-art-in-town/168170988/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Day |pages=20 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 18, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250318073612/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-day-hoffman-oil-added-to-art-in-town/168170988/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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