Helen Cowen Gunsaulus (April 6, 1886 – August 1, 1954) was an American art historian based in Chicago.

[3] In 1919, Gunsaulus was appointed assistant curator of Japanese ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

[4] She spoke to community organizations in the greater Chicago area[5][6] and on Cape Cod[7] about East Asian art.

[9] "[H]er heart was in her work and the drive to complete the tasks she had set for herself carried over the sufferings of the later months of her life and gave her the satisfaction of having much of it accomplished before death came", noted a 1955 report.

[10] Gunsaulus died in 1954, at the age of 68, in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts,[33] where she lived with Helen F. MacKenzie, a fellow Chicagoan and art historian.