Helen A. Harrison

Helen A. Harrison is an art historian, museum director, journalist and author who specializes in modern American art. A native of New York City, she received an A.B in studio art from Adelphi University, and studied sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art and Hornsey College of Art in London. She also holds an M.A. in art history from Case Western Reserve University.

After serving as Curator of the Parrish Art Museum, Director of the Public Art Preservation Committee, and Curator of Guild Hall Museum, Harrison became Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. She has also been a Guest Curator at the Queens Museum of Art and has taught at the School of Visual Arts.

From 1978-2006, Harrison wrote art reviews and feature articles for The New York Times' Long Island section. She has been the visual arts commentator for WLIU 88.3 FM, and wrote a monthly column, "Eye on Art," for the Sag Harbor Express.

Harrison's non-fiction books include Dawn of a New Day: The New York World's Fair 1939/40; monographs on the artists Jackson Pollock and Larry Rivers; an anthology, Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock; and Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, with co-author Constance Ayres Denne. Her Art of Murder mystery series is set in the New York and Hamptons art worlds.

Harrison and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor, New York.