Helen Lorenz 1881-1976 Pretty Southern Girl Portrait Oklahoma City Female Artist

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Helen Lorenz 1881-1976 Pretty Southern Girl Portrait Oklahoma City Female Artist:
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Item: Beautiful 1930\'s conte crayon drawing by Oklahoma City artist Helen Lorenz (Am., 1881-1976). Unframed. Depicted is a young girl with her pearl necklace. This drawing is from a recently discovered collection of Lorenz\'s Oklahoma-period work (I have about a dozen others which I\'ll be listing individually here on ). Helen Lorenz and her brother Keats Wasey Lorenz (1889-1966) were both artists working in Oklahoma City back in the 30\'s. Money was tight back in the Great Depression, but Helen made it as an art instructor and Keats made it as a woodcarver / architectural artist (his works can be seen in many Oklahoma City public buildings). This drawing will be packed and shipped the following way: a piece of tissue paper will be placed over the face of the drawing. I\'ll then carefully roll it (inward), place it in a mailing tube, and ship it USPS Standard/Parcel Post or Priority - buyer\'s choice. I can do flat shipping by request, but that will cost you a little extra. Authenticity guaranteed. Attention International Buyers: Please contact me for a shipping quote before offerding. Item ships via USPS Express Mail International OR UPS Standard to Canada, and with the price you pay declared on Customs forms -- Thanks for understanding.

Markings: Signed \"H. Lorenz\" lower right.

Age: Undated; from a collection of the artist\'s Oklahoma City work circa 1932-39 (identified per the sitter\'s names inscribed on some of the pieces).

Condition: A bit \'shabby chic\' -- may include: tack holes to edges, rough edges, creasing or wrinkles from handling by artist or another, discoloration to paper including foxing, stains from other works it was stored with / against, tears, etc. However, I wouldn\'t even offer it if I didn\'t think it would look presentable once appropriately matted and framed.

Dimensions: Sheet size: approx. 15 x 19 3/8 inches.

Origin: USA.

Features: Along with Richard Goetz, Helen Lorenz was an influential artist in Oklahoma City back in the 30\'s / 40\'s era. Miss Gene Stone studied under both Goetz and Lorenz. Lorenz taught Dr. Basil Hayes in night classes ca. 1932-39. Euda Adams studied with Helen Lorenz. Tom E. Phillips, originally from Colorado Springs, studied with Lorenz (Tom had one show at the Crown Heights Christian Church, 4020 N. Western). Helen Lorenz also taught Amanda Venelia Van Der Voort, a listed artist who\'d also studied with Pleisner, Romanovsky, Robert Philipp, Dong Kingman and Howard Hildebrandt. Like many folks in Oklahoma City circa 1930\'s, Lorenz wasn\'t a native Oklahoman. People moved around alot back then -- my grandad Sebe was from Oklahoma and ended up in Mineola, Texas. Helen and her artist-brother Keats were from Long Island, New York. Keats was her younger brother and through her influence he\'d studied at the Eric Pape School of Art as well as the Boston Normal Art School. While Helen had an impressive list of students and was portrait artist, Keats was a woodcarver and did work for the following in Oklahoma City: Skirvin Hotel And Tower, Oklahoma Historical Building, Ramsey Tower, Wm. H. Taft Junior High School, Stonewall Jackson High School, J. Steve Anderson Residence, Chas. Gunter Residence, U. S. Post Office, T. B. Slick Residence, County Court House, Municipal Building, etc. A New York native, Helen Lorenz lived the last part of her life in the hamlet of Burnside, Hamptonburgh, Orange County, New York (near Ulster County). Even towards the end of her life, Lorenz associated with the artistic crowd and owned the building which housed Inner Light Wax Works, a candle making company.

Background: A bit of Oklahoma history, from wiki-pedia on the net: Attempts to create an all-Indian state named Oklahoma and a later attempt to create an all-Indian state named Sequoyah failed but the Sequoyah Statehood Convention of 1905 eventually laid the groundwork for the Oklahoma Statehood Convention, which took place two years later. On November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was established as the 46th state in the Union. The new state became a focal point for the emerging oil industry, as discoveries of oil pools prompted towns to grow rapidly in population and wealth. Tulsa eventually became known as the \"Oil Capital of the World\" for most of the 20th century and oil investments fueled much of the state\'s early economy. In 1927, an Oklahoman businessman Cyrus Avery, known as the \"Father of Route 66\", began the campaign to create U.S. Route 66. Using a stretch of highway from Amarillo, Texas to Tulsa, Oklahoma to form the original portion of Highway 66, Avery spearheaded the creation of the U.S. Highway 66 Association to oversee the planning of Route 66, based in his hometown of Tulsa. Oklahoma also has a rich African American history. There were many black towns that thrived in the early 20th century because of black settlers moving from neighboring states, especially Kansas. The politician Edward P. McCabe encouraged black settlers to come to what was then Indian Territory. He discussed with President Theodore Roosevelt the possibility of making Oklahoma a majority-black state. By the early 20th century, the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa was one of the most prosperous African-American communities in the United States. Jim Crow laws had established racial segregation since before the start of the 20th century, but the blacks had created a thriving area. During the 1930s, parts of the state began suffering the consequences of poor farming practices, extended drought and high winds. Known as the Dust Bowl, areas of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and northwestern Oklahoma were hampered by long periods of little rainfall and abnormally high temperatures, sending thousands of farmers into poverty and forcing them to relocate to more fertile areas of the western United States. Over a twenty-year period ending in 1950, the state saw its only historical decline in population, dropping 6.9 percent as impoverished families migrated out of the state after the Dust Bowl. Soil and water conservation projects markedly changed practices in the state and led to the construction of massive flood control systems and dams; they built hundreds of reservoirs and man-made lakes to supply water for domestic needs and agricultural irrigation. By the 1960s, Oklahoma had created more than 200 lakes, the most in the nation. PLEASE SEE MY store FOR A NICE SELECTION OF ART, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES.

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