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Helen Torr Biographie
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1906 - 1910 |
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Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA (studied with William Merritt Chase)
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1919 |
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Torr met Arthur Dove in Connecticit
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1924 |
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Torr and Dove moved together to Halesite, NY
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1923 - 1929 |
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Lived with Arthur Dove in a Houseboat on the Harlem River, NY
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1933 - 1938 |
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Relocated with Dove to Centerport, Long Island, NY
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1938 |
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Torr and Dove moved back to Long Island, purchased a cottage in Centerport
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1946 |
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Arthur Dove dies, Torr lives alone in the Centerport cottage
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1967 |
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Died: Bayshore, Long Island, NY
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1998 |
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The Dove/Torr cottage was purchased by the Heckscher Museum of Art with the assistance of a New York State Historic Preservation grant
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2003
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Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr, A Retrospective, organized by Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (Travelled: ames Graham & Sons, New York, NY; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL: The Mitchell Gallery, St., John's College, Annapolis, MD [catalogue]
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2002
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(Re)Presenting Women, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
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2000
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L'Amérique et les modernes, 1900–1950’(group), Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France; Travelled:Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, France [catalogue]
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1972
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Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (solo)
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1967
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Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (solo)
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1933
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Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place Gallery, New York, NY
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1927
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Opportunity Gallery, curated by Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, NY
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Heckscher Museum, Huntington Long Island, NY
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New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
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Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| Littérature |
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1980
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Leff, Sandra. Helen Torr, 1886–1967: In Private Life, Mrs. Arthur Dove. (exh. cat., Graham Gallery). New York: Graham Gallery, 1980. Cat. no. 6, p. 9.
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1972
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Gatling, Eva Ingersoll. Helen Torr, 1886-1967 [Paperback]. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
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