Posted 9 years ago
vintagelamp
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This is a small, framed silhouette of two children by Helen Fisher. I am assuming that it is from the 1920s/1930s. I believe that I had read that this artist traveled around the country and did these silhouettes in department stores.
From the internet:
Helen Elizabeth Fisher was born to Mont [Mount] Braddus and and Bertha May Newby Fisher in Frankfort, Indiana on May 24, 1909. She had two brothers, Frank W. and Russell T. She did not marry.
Helen graduated from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana then studied with sculptor John Johnson of Frankfort, Indiana. She worked full time as a silhouette artist from 1932 to 1942, cutting some
80,000 silhouettes and travelling to many states. She worked for the Army Mao Service in 1942. Helen retired in 1969, returning to Indiana and some work with silhouettes and painting. She died May 26, 1993
in Greenwood, Indiana and is buried in the Greenlawn Cemetery, Frankfort.
