(American, active mid-1960s; Fargo, North Dakota)
Helen Glover was an American artist and printmaker active in Fargo, North Dakota, during the mid-1960s. She is best known for small-scale relief prints depicting regional subjects, including architectural and civic landmarks such as the Fargo Fairgrounds. Her work reflects a strong interest in place, local identity, and the built environment of the northern Plains.
She was married to Dr Jack F. Glover Jr, whose medical career required periodic relocation.
Glover worked primarily in relief printmaking, producing compositions characterized by clear structure, simplified forms, and careful attention to recognizable local settings. Her prints were often issued as individual works and as image-based note cards, suggesting both an artistic and community-oriented approach to distribution. These works align with a broader mid-century tradition of regional printmaking in the Upper Midwest, where artists frequently documented everyday landscapes and civic spaces through accessible graphic media.
By approximately 1962, Glover was residing on Southwood Drive in Fargo, having relocated from Texas, according to social media accounts of her. While documentation of formal exhibitions and institutional holdings remains limited, her surviving prints indicate a serious engagement with printmaking techniques and regional subject matter during a period of growing artistic activity in Fargo.
Helen Glover’s work is now of interest primarily to collectors and researchers focused on Midwestern regional art, women printmakers of the 20th century, and locally grounded artistic practices outside major metropolitan centers. Her known works appear to be held chiefly in private collections.
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