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About Sarah Helena de Kay
Helena de Kay (1846–1916), was a talented painter and a founder of the Art Students League and Society of American Artists. She also modeled for, and was an unrequited love of, the painter Winslow Homer.
Helena De Kay was an artist and cultural reformer. She studied painting with Winslow Homer. In 1874 she married poet and editor Richard Watson Gilder and their home became a literary and artistic center. In 1875 she organized the Art Students League to protest the conservatism of the National Academy. Gilder believed that painterly styles were inherently superior to narrative styles, which cultivated bad taste and stood in the way of the country's cultural development.
Helena de Kay and her husband, Richard Watson Gilder, were the models for the characters Thomas and Augusta Hudson in Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, "Angle of Repose."
Sarah's birth and death information are available at https://www.myheritage.com/matchingresult-3b790e7943b95861563dae8d9...?
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Sarah Helena de Kay's Timeline
| 1847 |
January 14, 1847
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Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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| 1877 |
1877
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| 1916 |
May 26, 1916
Age 69
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Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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