--- title: 2018_Helen Harrison_NYTimes_Obituary date: 2018-04-16T17:16:42-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-helen-harrison-nytimes-obituary" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) Helen Mayer Harrison, Leader in Eco-Art Movement, Dies at 90 The New York Times Apr 12, 2018 Helen Mayer Harrison, half of the husband-and-wife team known as [the Harrisons](http://theharrisonstudio.net/ "Website"), pioneers in the eco-art movement whose works blended elements of art, biology, environmentalism and more, died on March 24 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 90. Her family said the cause was Alzheimer’s disease. Ms. Harrison and her husband, Newton Harrison, were both well into careers as educators when. in the late 1960s. they began shifting their focus to making art, vowing that anything they created would involve ecosystems and environmental awareness. **[Read the full tribute here](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/obituaries/helen-mayer-harrison-leader-in-eco-art-movement-dies-at-90.html)** Related News & Press Apr 07, 2018 [ ![Portrait Of Hn Harrison Photo Copyright Peggy Jarrell Kaplan 1982](/assets/exhibition_images/Portrait-of-HN-Harrison-Photo-copyright-Peggy-Jarrell-Kaplan-1982.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrisons-artforum-jones) Apr 07, 2018 ARTFORUM [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [HELEN MAYER HARRISON (1927–2018)](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrisons-artforum-jones) Mar 27, 2018 [ ![Portrait Of Hn Harrison Photo Copyright Peggy Jarrell Kaplan 1985](/assets/exhibition_images/Portrait-of-HN-Harrison-Photo-copyright-Peggy-Jarrell-Kaplan-1985.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-helen-harrison-statement) Mar 27, 2018 [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [Remembering Helen Mayer Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-helen-harrison-statement) Feb 24, 2018 [ ![Screen Shot 2018 03 21 At 12 44 58 Pm](/assets/exhibition_images/Helen-Newton-Harrison/Screen-Shot-2018-03-21-at-12.44.58-PM.png) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrison) Feb 24, 2018 Santa Cruz Sentinel [Helen Mayer & Newton Harrison](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/helen-mayer-harrison-newton-harrison) [UCSC art professor championing environmental change since 1969](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-harrison) Jan 28, 1993 [ ](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/1993-wilke-nytimes) Jan 28, 1993 New York Times [Hannah Wilke](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) [Hannah Wilke, 52, Artist, Dies: Used Female Body as Her Subject](https://feldmangallery.com/archived-press/1993-wilke-nytimes) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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