Helen Sharp Potter (Nantucket, Contemporary)
Award winning master oil painter Helen Sharp Potter has been painting the landscapes and seascapes of Nantucket and New England for over 40 years. An island resident since 1985, Helen has captured the beauty of Nantucket eloquently with her lively brushwork and vibrant color.
Helen studied primarily under her husband Ellis W. Potter, a graduate of Pratt Institute with an illustrious painting career. She is an award winning member of the Salmagundi Club, the Rockport Art Association, the North Shore Art Association and Artist Association of Nantucket. She paints both en plein air and in the studio, and has taught many students during her years as an artist. Her paintings are in numerous collections both corporate and private, through out the world.
Recent Examples at Auction



- Joan Albaugh
- Ethel Anderson
- William D. Appleton
- Clifford Warren Ashley
- John Austin
- Milton Avery
- Solon Francis Montecello Badger
- James Francis Barker
- Doris & Richard Beer
- Eugene Louis Boudin
- Alfred Thompson Bricher
- Albert Bross
- Robert Bushong
- Polly Bushong
- James Edward Buttersworth
- Ralph Eugene Cahoon
- Martha Cahoon
- Nikita Carpenko
- Lincoln J. Ceely
- Frederick S Chadwick
- Rodney Charman
- Frank Swift Chase
- Leander M Churbuck
- Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin
- Anne Ramsdell Congdon
- Colin Campbell Cooper
- Laura Cooper
- Mellie Cooper
- Frank Corso
- James Cromartie
- Roy Cross
- Vu Cao Dam
- William R. Davis
- Gene Davis
- Molly Dee
- Donald Demers
- John Devaney
- William Duffy
- Lawrence Charmichael Earle
- Henry Stephens Eddy
- Alan J. Eddy
- Virginia Bargar Evans
- José Fabri-Canti
- John Falato
- George Gardner Fish
- Annie Barker Folger
- James Walter Folger
- Stephen Gibbs
- André Gisson
- Sybil Goldsmith
- Emile Albert Gruppe
- Marilyn Guerinot
- Mauritz Frederik Hendrick de Haas
- Davis Hall
- Kerry Hallam
- James Harrington
- James Hathaway
- Lowell Herrero
- Jason Emerson Herron
- Philip Hicken
- George Frank Higgins
- G.S. Hill
- Megan Hinton
- Emily Hoffmeier
- Alfred Heber Hutty
- George Inness
- Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobson
- Edgar W. Jenney
- Theodore Jeremenko
- Eastman Johnson
- Illya Kagan
- Michael Keane
- William Keith
- David Kooharian
- Kenneth Layman
- David Lazarus
- George Lear
- Richard Hayley Lever
- John Lochtefeld
- Harriet Lord
- Richard Loud
- William W. Lowe
- Michael Lynch
- William Starbuck Macy
- William Ferdinand Macy
- Wendell Macy
- Aletha Macy
- George Herbert McCord
- Keith McDaniel
- Joseph McGurl
- Maggie Meredith
- Addison Thomas Millar
- Jan L. Munro
- Mary Sarg Murphy
- Mark Myers
- Tom Nicholas
- Reginald Eugene Nickerson
- Michael A. Palmer
- Margaret Jordan Patterson
- Jan Pawlowski
- Edgar Payne
- C. Robert Perrin
- Helen Sharp Potter
- Jane Brewster Reid
- José Formoso Reyes
- Volney Allan Richardson
- Forrest Anderson Rodts
- Sergio Roffo
- Lenka Rubenstein
- Elizabeth Saltonstall
- Andrew Jackson Sandsbury
- Tony Sarg
- Issac Sheffield
- Andrew Shunney
- Henry Pember Smith
- Lillian Gertrude Smith
- H. Stadler
- Richard Stalter
- Robert Stark Jr.
- William Pierce Stubbs
- Mara Superior
- Ruth Haviland Sutton
- Ferdinand Sylvaro
- Anthony Thieme
- Tim Thompson
- Roy Tidmarsh
- Yasemin Tomakan
- Katie Trinkle-Legge
- Isabelle Hollister Tuttle
- Emma H. Van Pelt
- William Welch
- Orrin Augustine White
- Paul Whitten
- Paul Willer
- Sid Willis
- Bert Wright
- James Wyer
- Julian E. Yates
- Lori Zummo