Gee, Helen (1919–2004)
Gee, Helen (1919–2004)
American art gallery owner. Born Helen Charlotte Wimmer, April 29, 1919, in Jersey City, New Jersey; dau. of Peter Wimmer; m. Yun Gee (Chinese modernist painter), 1942 (div.); m. Kevin Sullivan (div.); children: (1st m.) Li-lan Gee (artist).
Launched the Limelight photography gallery in Greenwich Village (1954), which became a pioneering blueprint for the showcasing and selling of photography as an art form; closed Limelight (1961) and became an art consultant.
See also memoir Limelight: A Greenwich Village Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the 50's (University of New Mexico Press, 1997).
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