Helen Kapp

Helen Babette Kapp (17 December 1901 – 13 October 1978) was a British artist. Originally a painter and illustrator, Kapp became a curator and gallery director of some influence.

Biography Kapp was born in Hampstead in London into an artistic, émigré family, with a German father and an American mother, while her elder brother was the artist Edmond Xavier Kapp. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and then the Central School of Art and Design in London before completing her studies in Paris.

Working as a painter in both oils and watercolours and as an illustrator and wood engraver, Kapp exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the London Group, the Artists' International Association and both the Society of Wood Engravers and the Society of Women Artists. Her first solo exhibition was at Nicholson's Gallery in London in 1946 and she also took part in a British Council exhibition in Haifa in Israel. She retired in 1967 to live in Leiston in Suffolk. Kapp curated the exhibition Yorkshire Art 1900–1973 in Harrogate in 1973.

Books illustrated Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible, 1927, edited by Gerald Bullett, published by Howe, The Scandel and Credulities of John Aubrey, 1931, by John Collier, published by Peter Davies, Take Forty Eggs, 1938, by Basil Collier & Helen Kapp, published by Gollancz, Rose Recipes, 1939, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, published by Routledge, Fables and Satires, 1945, by Harold Morland, published by Routledge, Toying with a Fancy, 1948, by James Laver, published by Hale.