Helen Dryden

Helen Dryden
Born(1882-11-26)November 26, 1882[1]
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedOctober 1972 (1972-11) (aged 89)
NationalityAmerican
Awards1932 honorable mention as a commercial designer in the automotive field by the National Alliance of Art and Industry
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Helen Dryden (5 November 1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1930s. She was reportedly described by The New York Times as being the highest-paid woman artist in the United States, though she lived in comparative poverty in later years.[3]

  1. ^ Social Security application form OAC-790
  2. ^ US Social Security Death Index
  3. ^ Gray, Christopher (5 December 1996). "New York Architecture Images". Retrieved 12 March 2015. Greenwich Village became an artists' colony, it attracted people like Helen Dryden, who was described in The New York Times in 1956 as once having been the highest-paid female artist in the country.