Collette Pope Heldner
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Collette Pope Heldner, born Dorothy Colette Pope (May 18, 1902 in Waupaca,
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– May 3, 1990 in
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Colette Pope Heldner
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) was an American painter. She married Knute Heldner, who was her instructor at a school in Minnesota. The two lived and painted in New Orleans from 1923 onward spending sometime in Paris. She and her husband were part of a loosely organized collective of 1920s New Orleans artists sometimes called the "French Quarter School" which catered to tourists interested in American history. Mycologist James T. Sinski displayed a painting by Heldner in his home, in
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, as a nod to his medical training in Louisiana.


Death and legacy

Heldner died in 1990. In 2005 her work was included in an exhibition, "In a New Light: America's Brush with Impressionism" at the
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in Augusta, Georgia. In 2020, a painting by Heldner was featured in a fundraising raffle for the Friends of the LSU Ag Center Botanical Gardens.


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1902 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American painters Painters from Minnesota {{US-painter-1900s-stub