Helen Oliver Adelson, excerpt from the Lower East Side Biography Project

Helen Oliver Adelson, a true and lifelong Bohemian, embodies those values of individuality grounded in an uncompromising intelligence. As well as being a powerful painter, Helen has a profound aesthetic vision that encompasses all the arts and a highly developed self individuated articulacy buoyed by the merriest of in her presence is pure joy! - Penny Arcade The interview with Penny Arcade took place in a room Helen painted at the divine Carlton Arms Hotel on East 25th street. “Helen