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Helene Marie Fesenmaier was an American painter and sculptor working in acrylic, oil pastels, and wood alongside many other materials. She was encouraged in art by her mother, who had studied at the Art Institute in Chicago. She graduated from Smith College and Yale School of Art. Fesenamier was part of a group who established the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture in 1964. She spent time painting in the Netherlands and visited archaeological sites in Greece, Peru and Yucatán before taking up sculpting in Venezuela when she could not obtain suitable life models to paint and draw from this led to her making her own wooden constructions from packing crates using pastels to make drawings on black paper, later to be exhibited alongside each other. In 1970, Fesenmaier moved from Venezuela to London, as she combined painting and sculpting. She exhibited her works in major cities and art museums across the globe, and was posthumously inducted into the ISD 88 Hall of Fame in 2017.