Helen Watson Phelps

Phelps was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 1864.^[1]

Phelps is known to have received some training at the Académie Julian and with Raphaël Collin in Paris.^[2] While there she showed work at the Paris Salon; she also exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Society of American Artists during her career.^[3] She received awards for her paintings at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901, and from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in 1914,^[2] and she was represented at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.^[4] In 1915 she exhibited a group of paintings alongside pieces by Alice Schille, Adelaide Deming and Emma Lampert Cooper.^[5] Phelps' work was described as having European tendencies, and was well-regarded by critics.^[6]

Phelps died in New York City in 1944.^[7] A pair of portraits by Phelps are held by the Rhode Island School of Design.^[8] Her portrait of Charlotte Buell Coman is in the collection of the National Academy.^[2]

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