Alden Mellor Heck
Alden Mellor Heck taught art at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for forty years. As a teenager she painted at the Académie Julian in Paris, then studied under painter and printmaker Ansei Uchima at Sarah Lawrence. During her teaching career she worked with other outstanding mentors to acquire painting skills: still-life artist and master frame-maker Robert Kulicke in New York, and in Pennsylvania, representational figurative artist Martha Mayer Erlebacher, and art theorist Myron Barnstone. Her work has been exhibited for decades at the Rosenthal Gallery in Philadelphia.
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Life and Art
Alden Mellor Heck
This unique memoir is a meditation on the integration of art with life. Alden Mellor Heck ties deeply personal experience to the expressiveness of her own paintings, as well as those of many other artists who have influenced her.
If the history of art is the story of styles
and techniques developing and changing, this book tells a personal art history of an outstanding artist as she pursues how to recreate non-verbal immediate experience of the world.
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