Helen Hamilton

Old Mill, Silvermine

The Red Mill, Silvermine


SOLD House on the River
Helen Hamilton's family settled in the Silvermine area of New Canaan, CT in 1912. She studied painting at the National Academy in New York and with her father Hamilton Hamilton NA at home. Beginning around 1909 she was showing her paintings with the Silvermine Group of Artists, a significant achievement for a young woman at the time. There she painted the Silvermine River and the local environs until her death in 1970.