Home > Artist Database > Bio-bibliographic Database > STADELBAUER, Helen

Artist Database

STADELBAUER, Helen

Born
Calgary, Alberta, 1910
Died
Calgary, Alberta, 2006
Biography synopsis
In addition to her significant contribution to art education in Alberta, Stadelbauer was recognized for her independence and openness to modernist art. She initially taught in rural and urban schools after graduation from the Calgary Normal School in 1933. She subsequently turned to art studies in 1936, taking courses at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (Calgary), the Banff School of Fine Arts, and the Alberta College of Art, where she obtained an Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts in 1945. She attended Columbia University between 1947-1949, receiving a Masters degrees in Art. On her return to Calgary, Stadelbauer taught at the University of Alberta (Calgary campus) in 1949. She is credited with playing an important role in the expansion of the Art Department at the University of Calgary, which became an independent university in 1961. Stadelbauer was dedicated to art education, remaining at the university for thirty-one years; during this time she continued to produce hundreds of prints, sketches, and modernist Canadian landscapes.
Media used
Painting
Printmaking
Watercolour
Education
Provincial Institute of Art and Technology, Calgary, Alberta
Banff School of Fine Arts (under A.Y. Jackson, Walter J. Phillips, Henry Glyde, Charles Comfort)
Summer School of the Department of Education, University of Alberta
Columbia University, New York, 1947 - 1949
File & Archive locations
Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
Glenbow Archives, AB - Photographs Catalogue
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
University of Calgary Library, AB
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Writings about
"Abstract Art Technique shown at Costa House." The Calgary Herald." 14 Oct. 1950:30
"Alberta Art of Display." The Calgary Herald 5 July 1946: 8
"European Oils at Costa House." The Calgary Herald 21 Oct. 1950: 25
Cochran, Bente Roed. Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985 Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989
Conrad, Margaret. "Women's Century." The Beaver 82.1 (Feb-Mar. 2002): 45
Cook, Sharon Anne, et al., eds. Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the 20th Century. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001
LaViolette, Mary-Beth. Alberta Mistresses of the Modern, 1935-1975. Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2012
Laviolette, Mary-Beth. At the Crossroads : Helen Stadelbauer and Wes Irwin. Calgary, Alberta: Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, 2010
MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009.
Norbury, F.M.. "Alberta Pictures to Tour Dominion.” Edmonton Journal 07 Jan. 1946: 5
Reichwein, P. and K. Wall. Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts Banff: Banff School of Fine Arts, 2020
Ryan, Janice. "The Daring Side of Alberta's Art Gender Gap; Obscurity gave Women the Freedom to Explore Modernist Innovations." Edmonton Journal 16 Mar. 2012
Tousley, Nancy. "Forgotten Artists meet at Crossroads." Calgary Herald 25 Apr. 2010: C3
Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
Woodard, Joe. "Helen Stadelbauer: Artist and teacher studied with A.Y. Jackson." Calgary Herald 7 May 2006: B5
Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000

Search by: