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Helen Clark Oldfield was a painter and the wife of Otis Oldfield, a San Francisco painter and art educator. Born in Santa Rosa, 1902, she attended the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland from 1922 to 1924. Helen Oldfield met artist Otis Oldfield while attending his classes at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and they married one year later. Additionally, she headed the Art Department and taught at the Sarah Dix Hamlin School from 1946 to 1968. Helen Oldfield showed her work regularly at the Valley Gallery in Walnut Creek where she rented and sold her work. Lastly, she was an active member of the Artists Equity Association’s local chapter. In this interview, she discusses her family background, marriage to Otis Oldfield, influences from other artists, and art schools in the Bay Area.