Helen Appleton Read

Helen Lincoln Appleton Read (August 25, 1887 – December 3, 1974) was an American art critic and art historian.

Helen Lincoln Appleton was born on August 25, 1887, in Brooklyn Heights to R. Ross Appleton and his wife. Her father was a banker, who, by 1914, was President of the Security Bank of New York;

Helen attended Brooklyn Heights Seminary, From 1908-14, she studied painting at the Art Students League under the supervision of William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent DuMond and at the New York School of Art with painter Robert Henri. While studying art, she also sat for paintings, including two works by Eugene Speicher, "Red, White and Blue" (1914) and "Miss Helen Appleton" which won the 1911 Proctor Prize from the National Academy. from Boston and Manchester-by-the-Sea. the following year, then became president in 1957. a historic Federal townhouse built in 1826. She was survived by her daughter, three granddaughters, and her sister.

Books Robert Henri (1931) 500 Years of German Art Caspar David Friedrich, Apostle of Romanticism