[13][14][15][16] The Chase family often hosted gatherings, attracting artists, writers, actors, and dancers to their home in Omaha.

[22] Helena Modjeska Chase's home in the Catskill Mountains still holds Paderewski's concert grand piano as a relic of that era.

Her mother's watercolor work and Helena's own small statuette called "Day Dreams" were often exhibited together.

[25] In 1916, Helena Chase studied at the Latin school in Chicago[26] and took art and dancing lessons at the Chamber's Academy Ballroom.

[30] At the age of 16, in September 1917, Helena Chase designed a poster for a fundraising effort to support Unit No.1 of the American Fund for French Wounded Civilian Relief.

[1] She dedicated her thesis to studying the art and lives of children from various parts of the world, conducting research during her travels to 38 countries, including those behind the Iron Curtain.

[4] In 1923, Helena Chase married Harry McClure Johnson, a distinguished trademark attorney who had achieved recognition in New York and Chicago.

[1] Helena Chase Johnson spent the summer months of 1933 at her home in part of the Henry Cook ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

[41] Her daughters Elizabeth and Priscilla wrote and published books under this venture, including "The Vengeance of the Vixen" and "How the Eggplant Came to Be.

She played several instruments, including the viola, and performed as the third solo violist in the Bach Brandenburg Concerto with the Putney Chamber Orchestra.

Helena Chase Johnson contributed three oil portraits to the 1944 annual exhibit of the Denver Art Museum.

[41] In August 1949, doll portraits painted by Helena Chase Johnson were displayed in the children's department of the Denver Public Library.

[48] Helena Chase Johnson hosted one-person art shows, showcasing her portraits and still life studies.

[4] In 1965, Helena Chase Johnson married Dr. William Francis Drea at Grace Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs.

Helena's wedding ceremony included musical performances by Dr. Julius Baird on the organ, and she was given in marriage by her son-in-law, Gunther Paetsch.

[52] She exhibited her paintings in public libraries across the country, taught at schools in Chutney, Vermont, and Hickory Ridge, and raised Mustangs, Palominos, and Arabian Horses on Rock Cliff Ranch and in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

[4] Helena Chase Johnson had a strong involvement in real estate and purchased "The Little Hotel by the Sea" in La Jolla, California in 1939.

[55] Helena and her five children celebrated the grand opening of the hotel in 1940, with their two Shetland ponies, Peanuts and Pardner, serving as official greeters.

[4] Additionally, she had a passion for painting, writing, traveling, horse breeding, real estate, children's books, reading, art, and music.

She was also an amateur musician herself playing several instruments, including the viola, on which she was 3rd Solo Violist in the Bach Brandenburg Concerto in the Putney Chamber Orchestra under Norwood Hinkle while living in Vermont.

She was actively involved in various organizations, including being a member of the Unitarian community and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

On her mother's side, Lula Belle Edwards Chase traced her ancestry directly to five individuals who arrived on the Mayflower, including Governor William Bradford, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.