Collette Pope Heldner
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Collette Pope Heldner was a painter. She was born in Minnesota
in 1902. She married Knute Heldner
, also a painter, who was her instructor at a school in Minnesota. The two lived and painted in New Orleans, Louisiana from about 1923 onward. She died in 1990.
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
in 1902. She married Knute Heldner
Knute Heldner
-Biography:Knute August Heldner was born in Sweden. He lived in the village Vederslöv, Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts in Stockholm. He migrated to America around 1902. He lived...
, also a painter, who was her instructor at a school in Minnesota. The two lived and painted in New Orleans, Louisiana from about 1923 onward. She died in 1990.