Jacqueline Neva Heaslip

Mother
1925 — 2015

My mother was born in New York City, lived on West 4th Street, and Washington Heights in the early 1920’s. She was strongly influenced by her father William John Heaslip who took her plein air painting when she was a child. She attended Douglas College and NYU and earned a bachelors degree in Biology. After marriage and children, she attended the Art Students League in NYC for several years and studied drawing anatomy and portrait painting under the instruction of Robert Beverly Hale, Robert Brackman, Isaac Soyer and Joseph Stapelton.

She also attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art where she majored in Fabric Design and was later employed by design studios in New York City. She retired to Staunton, Virginia and assisted with the start-up of Co-Art Gallery in Staunton and traveled to Italy with other local artists to paint plein air in Perugia, Italy.

She also enjoyed the twelve year friendship of her partner Robert Fremont Conover, who was a noted artist for his etchings on copper plate which illustrated many historic areas of New York City; many of his etchings are housed in MOMA in NYC and are on sale at The Old Print Shop in NYC.

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