Helen Saunders (1885-1963)
by Biddy Peppin
January 11, 2026
Today the artist Helen Saunders (1885-1963) is well-represented in public collections. The Courtauld Gallery holds twenty of her paintings; Tate owns a further eight, the Victoria and Albert Museum has two and the Ashmolean Museum one, while across the Atlantic the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago possesses four of her works. As an acknowledged pioneer of abstraction her work has been included internationally in exhibitions in New York, Hanover, Toulouse, Venice and Paris as well as in London. Even so, her name is...
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