Hélène Valance | American Art and Visual Culture

Hélène Valance is a French scholar specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. She recently completed a dissertation on nocturne paintings in American art at the turn of the twentieth century. She has contributed articles and essays to several publications, including a chapter entitled “The Dynamo and the Virgin: Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Religious Nocturnes” which appeared in the catalogue for the 2012 retrospective on Henry Ossawa Tanner organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She has received several fellowships from the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Smithsonian Institution. 

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