Helen Jones Carter, a former sculptor and the
wife of American composer Elliott Carter, died of heart failure on 17 May at
the couple's home in New York City, according to an announcement
from Boosey & Hawkes, the composer's publisher. She was
95.
Ms. Carter was born in New Jersey and studied there and
at the Art Students League of New York, after which she became active as a
sculptor in the city. One of her works, a portrait head of Marcel Duchamp,
is in the collection of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut;
another portrait head, depicting her husband, is on display at the main branch
of the New York Public Library.
Helen Jones Carter was the dedicatee of
Elliott Carter's Boston Concerto, which received its world premiere last month from
the Boston Symphony under conductor Ingo Metzmacher.
— Matthew Westphal
