Helen Charlton McClain (b. 1887)

Helen Charlton McClain was a painter of portraits and landscapes, including urban scenes rendered in the style of the Ashcan School.  She was born in Toronto, Canada, and studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and R. Sloan Bredin.  She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Helconian Club, Toronto.  By 1929 she had left New York to return to Toronto, where she continued to paint and exhibit her work. 

 

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