Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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On View: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Posted: June 13, 2018
Category: Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
Learn about works by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva as part of the "Month of Portugal in the United States" (June 2018).
A light-skinned adult woman in a gray dress with medium-length, wavy, brown hair is seen from behind, standing and facing a large, abstract painting. The painting depicts blurry, layered rectangles and squares in shades of gray, taupe, and black, layered and appearing to recede.

Artist Spotlight: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Posted: November 19, 2010
Category: Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva
Learn more about painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, whose work The Town (1955) is featured in the NMWA collection.
Landscape-oriented, rectangular painting of black lines and slashes across white. The black lines run vertically and horizontally, and appear to be slashed through while the paint was wet, evoking raindrops running down a window during a storm.