An important pioneer of modernism, abstract impressionism and abstract classicism in Southern California, Helen Lundeberg has been called one of the daring pioneers and explorers of 20th Century American Art.  She was born in Chicago in 1908.  Her family moved to Pasadena in 1912 and she attended Pasadena Junior College with the intention of becoming an English teacher.  After graduation in 1930, she was offered a 3-month scholarship to an Art School in Pasadena.  Her instructor there, Lorser Feitelson, later became her husband. Together they co-founded ‘Post Surrealism’ in 1934, which fused the fantastical style of Surrealism with the formal structure of Renaissance painting and made Surrealism "less weird." 

Lundeberg was employed by the WPA in the print and mural division from 1936 until the Project closed in 1942.  Of her many murals, the last one was the spectacular mural wall, 241 feet long, “The History of Transportation”,  for the City of Inglewood, California.  At the time, this was the largest such project in the United States.