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11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!

Description: Offered are 11 rare original graphite pencil sketches by Cleveland, Ohio artist and teacher at the Cleveland School of Art, HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949). I purchased these and others that I will be listing about 20 years ago from the estate of Henry's son Albert F. Keller when I lived in San Diego. The largest measures 4 5/8" x 6 1/4" and is drawn on the back of a Cleveland, Ohio brochure dated 1932. Henry George Keller (1869-1949)Keller, a leading painter in Cleveland, was born at sea, off Nova Scotia on April 3, 1869. His earliest training was in Karlsruhe, Germany under Hermann Baisch (1846-1894), then at the Cleveland School of Art, the Cincinnati Fine Arts Academy and the Art Students League in New York. The young artist was an apprentice at the W. J. Morgan Lithograph Company, also in Cleveland. Keller polished off his art instruction at the Munich Academy (1899-1902) with Heinrich Johann Zügel (1850-1941), chiefly an animal painter. There he would have rubbed shoulders with Walt Kuhn. At the end of his stay in Munich, he won a silver medal. His watercolor, Santa Maria della Salute, in a private collection, is in the tradition of John Singer Sargent. According to Arthur Covey, Keller was back in Munich in 1904-05, and he mentioned a painting called Storm-frightened Animals (Weimer, 1940, pp. 570-572). In Munich, Keller also met William Sommer, a future Cleveland post-impressionist. Back in America, Keller immediately found a job at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh then he taught at his alma mater, the Cleveland School of Art until 1945. In Cleveland, remarked Keller (in Milliken, 1950), there was a kind of pale, timid, watered Impressionism and he reacted against it. Charles Burchfield, one of his more famous students, studied at the Cleveland School of Art between 1912 and 1916, when Keller was studying Asian art and showing modernist tendencies, having surpassed impressionism. Keller was also an enthusiast of Diaghelev's Ballets Russes, which he saw on their American tour. He studied the psychology of color with Dr. J. J. R. Macleod and underwent Cézanne's influence. Also at that time, Keller exhibited two works at the Armory Show Wisdom and Destiny (Cleveland Museum of Art) and The Valley (unlocated). The former shows Keller's more traditional, intellectual side, with its classical allegorical figures in a stormy landscape. The theme was inspired by one of Maurice Maeterlinck's essays. Keller's modernism is revealed in the contemporary watercolor entitled Sunflower, in the same museum, which recalls some of the bravura of the free brushwork of John Marin. Keller was part of a group called the Cleveland Independents. The list of Keller's exhibition activities is truly amazing, from local venues in Cleveland to Chicago (including a special show of his wash drawings in May of 1920), Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York, his works were on view year by year. The Cleveland Museum of Art presented him with awards on numerous occasions and in 1939, he was elected to the National Academy of Design. That year, his painting Circus Day was on display at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, while at the New York World's Fair in 1939, his Horse Barn appeared in the exhibition of contemporary artists. Here the horses are closer to those of German Expressionist Franz Marc than to those of Degas. The Whitney Museum has Keller's charcoal and watercolor, Bird Rock, California (1925). The painter died in San Diego, on August 3, 1949.

Price: 155 USD

Location: Austin, Minnesota

End Time: 2025-01-17T23:25:25.000Z

Shipping Cost: 10 USD

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11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!11 RARE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS by HENRY GEORGE KELLER N.A. (1869-1949) ESTATE FRESH!

Item Specifics

All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Artist: Henry George Keller

Type: Drawing

Theme: Art

Style: Impressionism

Material: Pencil

Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)

Region of Origin: Ohio, USA

Subject: Figures

Time Period Produced: 1925-1949

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