Separating from Hord, she moved to Los Angeles in 1934, joining the post-surrealist group around Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg, and participating in the mural division of the Federal Arts Project, where she learned the art of screenprinting, which would become her favored graphic technique.
In the late 1950s, Langsner and Peter Selz, then professor at the Claremont Colleges, observed a common link among the recent work of John McLaughlin (1898–1976), Lorser Feitelson (1898-1978), Karl Benjamin (1925-2012), Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999).
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This was called, simply, California Hard-edge painting. Included in this show were Florence Arnold, John Barbour, Larry Bell, Karl Benjamin, John Coplans, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, June Harwood, Helen Lundeberg, John McLaughlin, and Dorothy Waldman.
Helen Mirren | Helen Keller | Helen | Helen of Troy | Helen Hayes | Helen Clark | Helen Reddy | Helen Frankenthaler | Helen Hunt | Helen Humes | Helen Razer | Helen Fielding | Helen Allingham | Helen Storrow | Helen Shaver | Helen Caldicott | Helen Sjöholm | Helen Sharman | Helen Nicol | Helen Morgan | Helen Merrill | Helen Hay Whitney | Helen Hanft | Helen Fein | Helen Dunmore | Helen Callaghan | Helen Baylor | Helen Thomas | Helen Reimensnyder Martin | Helen Lewis |
From 1980-1990 she studied figure drawing with Harry Carmean at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and exhibited at the Tobey Moss Gallery in Los Angeles with Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg.