Alden Mellor Heck

Alden Mellor Heck taught art at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia for forty years. As a teenager she painted at the Académie Julian in Paris, then studied under painter and printmaker Ansei Uchima at Sarah Lawrence. During her teaching career she worked with other outstanding mentors to acquire painting skills: still-life artist and master frame-maker Robert Kulicke in New York, and in Pennsylvania, representational figurative artist Martha Mayer Erlebacher, and art theorist Myron Barnstone. Her work has been exhibited for decades at the Rosenthal Gallery in Philadelphia.