About Helen D. Beals
Lived 1897 – 1991 (aged 93–94). Helen D. Beals was a Canadian painter.
Helen D. Beals (May 27, 1898 – April 17, 1991) was a Canadian artist and educator. She is best-known for her involvement with the Maritime Art Association and the publication Maritime Art Magazine.
Biography Helen Dorothy Beals was born in 1898 in Canso, Nova Scotia, the elder sister of astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals.
After graduating from Acadia University in 1919, Beals traveled to Boston, Massachusetts to study at Simmons College. In 1945, Beals became the Head of the Department of Art at Acadia University and continued until 1963.
Throughout her academic career Beals continued to paint and exhibit her works at the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, the Maritime Art Association, and the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. Beals was also a potter and a member of the Minas Potters Guild.
Beals died on April 17, 1991, aged 92, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
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Helen D. Beals was born in 1897.
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Helen D. Beals died on 17 April 1991.
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