Helen Crohn was raised in Manhattan and has lived in Beacon since 2018.  In her former life, since 1972 she was a clinical social worker specializing in couples & families.

She studied art at the High School of Music and Art (NYC), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), and R.I.T. (Rochester NY).

Her social work education was at Bryn Mawr SSW (Bryn Mawr, PA) MSS (1972) and Adelphi University SSW, Garden City, NY (DSW, 2005)

She taught at the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Work from 2006 to 2021.

In her current life she has studied with various teachers in the Hudson Valley and began painting  in 2018 after a long hiatus.  She bases her painting on personal experience, childhood memories,  effects on her family as refugees from Europe during the period 1933-1945, and the beauty witnessed during her global travel. Her use of color is heavily influenced by travels through Central America especially by the  colors, textures and culture of Mexico and Guatemala.

Helen was married to the painter Stan Lindwasser for over forty years at the time of his death in 2020. They have three adult children and three grandchildren. Helen lives alone with Rembrandt (age 15) and Raphael, (age 6) her outstanding and funny pooches named after the Renaissance masters.