biographie de Helen LUNDEBERG (1908-1999)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, muralist, lithographer

Studied: Lorser Feitelson.

Exhibited: Stanley Rose Gal., Hollywood, 1933 (solo), 1935 (solo); SFMA, 1935, 1976; "Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism," MoMA, 1936-37; AIC; PAFA Ann., 1951; Pasadena Art Inst., 1953 (solo); S„o Paulo Biennial, Brazil, 1955; Santa Barbara Mus. of Art, 1959 (solo); WMAA, 1962 ("Geometric Abstraction in America"), 1965, 1967; La Jolla Mus Contemp. Art, 1971 (retrospective); Rutgers Univ., 1977; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gal., 1979 (solo); UCLA, Wight Gal., 1980 (solo); SFMA, 1980 (double retro., with Lorser Feitelson); Palm Springs Desert Mus., 1983 (solo); Laguna Art Mus., 1987 (solo); LACMA, 1988 (solo); Sesnon Art Gal., UCSC, 1988 (solo)

Member: Los Angeles Art Assoc.

Work: LACMA; SFMA; Hirshhorn Coll.; La Jolla Mus. Contemp. Art; Centinela Park, Inglewood, CA (245-foot curved outdoor wall); George Washington High School, Los Angeles (mural).

Comments: Leading California metaphysical painter. She married her teacher Lorser Feitelson (see entry), with whom she started the California movement they called Post-Surrealism in the mid 1930s. She was also a WPA artist.

Sources: WW73; Joseph E. Young, "Helen Lundeberg; an American Independent," Art Int. (Sept, 20 1971); Hughes, Artists in California, 347; Wechsler, 45; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 74 (w/repro.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.