The two lived and painted in New Orleans from 1923 onward spending sometime in Paris.
She and her husband were part of a loosely organized collective of 1920s New Orleans artists sometimes called the "French Quarter School" which catered to tourists interested in American history.
[2] Mycologist James T. Sinski displayed a painting by Heldner in his home, in Frederick, Maryland, as a nod to his medical training in Louisiana.
[1] In 2005 her work was included in an exhibition, "In a New Light: America's Brush with Impressionism" at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.
[4] In 2020, a painting by Heldner was featured in a fundraising raffle for the Friends of the LSU Ag Center Botanical Gardens.