John Taylor Arms prefaced Helen West Heller's Woodcuts U.S.A., published by Oxford University Press in 1947, with the following assessment of her contribution to American graphic art:

"A woman of high intellectual attainments, unusual emotional intensity, and keen sensitivity of feeling, she has been able to combine all these qualities in her work and by long years of self-discipline,

training and practice has developed a technical mastery of her tools and her medium which gives her fluent expression of them.That spiritual quality, that affinity between the artist and the mood of the subject, which raises the level of a sound piece of craftsmanship or a bit of intellectual objectivity and endows it with the spirit of true art, is present in every one of Helen West Heller's wooodcuts..."
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Dune - - 1927, Woodcut.

Edition small. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower left. Annotated in the artist's hand: #8 and Dune in pencil, bottom left margin.

Image size 7 9/16 x 12 inches (192 x 305 mm); sheet size 11 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (286 x 400 mm).

A fine, black impression, on heavy cream Japan, with full margins (1 3/8 to 2 1/4 inches). Very pale light toning within a previous mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition.

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Flogging - - 1927, Woodcut.

Edition small. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil. Initialed in the block, center left. Annotated in the artist's hand: #6 and Flogging in pencil, bottom left margin; and cat #52 in ink, bottom left sheet edge.

Image size 8 3/8 x 9 inches (213 x 229 mm); sheet size 11 1/4 x 14 3/8 inches (286 x 365 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition.

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Hooves - - 1927, Wood Engraving.

Edition small. Signed, titled and dated in pencil.

Image size 7 9/16 x 12 1/8 inches (192 x 308 mm); sheet size 10 1/2 x 16 3/8 inches (267 x 264 mm).

A fine impression, on buff Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 inches). Original paper hinges attached to the top right and left sheet corners, recto; otherwise in excellent condition.

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Interference - - c.1927, Woodcut.

Edition small. Signed and titled in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower right. Annotated in the artist's hand: cat #3 and Key. Blk. #3 in pencil, bottom left sheet edge.

Image size 12 x 7 1/2 inches (305 x 191 mm); sheet size 14 3 /4 x 10 3/8 inches (375 x 264 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream Japan, with full margins (1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

$650.

Untitled (Architect) - - 1948, Woodcut.

Edition small. Signed and dated in pencil. Initialed in the block, lower left.

Image size 5 x 6 3/8 inches (127 x 162 mm); sheet size 6 1/8 x 7 9/16 inches (156 x 192 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan, with full margins (3/8 to 3/4 inch), in excellent condition.

SOLD