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Leon KellySurrealist Portrait Drawing by Philadelphia Artist Leon Kelly1958
1958
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Leon Kelly
(American, born France, 1901-1982)
Surrealist Portrait
Ink on paper, 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches; Framed: 21 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
Signed and dated at lower right: "Leon Kelly 1958"
Inscribed: "To Socrates with [love from Leon Kelly?]"
Provenance: the artist; Socrates and Rhea Perakis, NJ
Leon Kelly was born in Perpignan in the French Pyrenees and brought to Philadelphia as an infant. He entered the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) in 1924. Afterwards he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where his most influential instructors were Earl Horter and Arthur B. Carles. Their familiarity with French Fauvism and Cubism, as well as Horter’s own collection of avant-garde European art, exerted a considerable impact on Kelly.
Kelly began to experiment with Surrealism around 1940. In the 1940s and 1950s Kelly produced a body of paintings that, while of varied style, was consistent enough in its fantastical and Surrealist affiliation to present a coherent vision. He used a broad range of saturated colors that distinguished his paintings from those of other Surrealists and made him known as an American Surrealist with an intensely personal vision.
- Creator:Leon Kelly (1901-1982, American)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 21.75 in (55.25 cm)Width: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Philadelphia, PA
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Leon Kelly
Leon Kelly, born in 1901, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Awarded a traveling scholarship from that institution in 1924, he studied in Paris, France at the Grande Chaumiere. Other teachers included Arthur B. Carles, Jean Auguste Adolphe, Earl Horter and Alexandre Portinoff. Essentially a Surrealist painter, Kelly did wide-ranging work that went from painterly to meticulous Surrealism, Cezanne-inspired watercolors, and Cubist painting. In the 1940s, Julian Levy, the Surrealist dealer, handled Kelly's work in New York City. Kelly also exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art Annuals (1933-34, 1939-46, 1966); Corcoran Gallery Biennials, Washington, D.C. (three times from 1935-47); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; had a 1965 retrospective exhibition at the International Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; Long Beach, New Jersey (1968); Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (1968, 1970); Newark Museum, New Jersey (1969); and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Kelly's paintings are in the collections of three New York city museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; and Museum of Modern Art; as well as Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Sara Roby Foundation Collection at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; Newark Museum, New Jersey; and the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel.
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