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Henry Keller
Untitled (seated female nude)

1920

About the Item

Seated Femake Nude Graphite and chalk on tan paper, c. 1920 Signed "Keller" and signed again with the artist's initials in a cypher A finished life drawing most probably exhibited at the May Show (no label) Purchased in a vintage presentation mat. Condition: Excellent Sheet size: 14 x 11 3/16 inches Henry Keller (1869-1949) Born aboard ship off Nova Scotia of German parents on April 3, 1869. The Keller family settled in Ohio. Henry studied in Cleveland at the Institute of Art and for 43 years taught at that school. During the 1890s he worked there at the Morgan Lithograph Company, during which time he studied in NYC at the ASL. Keller made his first trip to California in 1915 to attend the PPIE. Following a visit to San Diego in 1925, he spent several summers there. He was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1939. In 1948 he moved to San Diego to live with his son and died there on Aug. 3, 1949. The subjects of his watercolors, oils, lithographs, and etchings include horses, figures, landscapes of Ohio, San Diego, and from his world travels. Exh: Royal Academy (Munich) 1902 (silver medal); Armory Show (NYC), 1913; Carnegie Inst., 1914-44; AIC, 1929 (prize); Calif. WC Society, 1940; Cleveland Museum, 1950 (memorial). In: Library of Congress; Whitney Museum (NYC); MM; Cleveland Museum; Boston Museum. Courtesy: AskArt Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940," American Art Annual 1903-33 American Magazine of Art, Sept. 1936 Who's Who in American Art 1936-47 KELLER, HENRY GEORGE (3 Apr. 1869-3 Aug. 1949), painter and teacher, was born at sea as his parents, Jacob and Barbara (Karcher) Keller, came to Cleveland. In 1887, Keller entered the Cleveland School of Art, studying for 3 years, then studying at Karlsruhe in Germany 2 years before returning to complete his Cleveland education. He studied in Dusseldorf, then at Munich from 1899-1902, and also attended the Art Students' League in New York and Cincinnati School of Art, working as a lithographer to finance his schooling. He joined the teaching staff at Cleveland School of Art (see CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART), serving until 1945. Keller had little sympathy with modernism, seeing his function as expressing nature as he saw it. In 1928, Keller won the Davis Purchase Prize at Witte Memorial Museum in San Antonio; in 1929, the Blair Purchase Prize at the Art Institute Internatl. Exhibition of Water Colors in Chicago. He made 11 Carnegie shows in Pittsburgh and had 1-man shows throughout the country. In 1919, he won the Special Award for sustained excellence for entries in the first MAY SHOW at the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART. Keller's themes were American, and he felt the Midwest was the great reservoir of the American Idea. He started a summer school at Berlin Hts., Ohio, ca. 1908. Keller married Imogene Leslie on 2 Jan. 1893 and had 2 sons, Henry Leslie and Albert Fay. Following his wife's death in 1948, Keller moved to San Diego, Calif. Both Keller and his wife are buried in the old burying ground at Berlin Hts. Village. Courtesy Case
  • Creator:
    Henry Keller (1869 - 1949, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1920
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11.82 in (30.03 cm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fairlawn, OH
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: FA81101stDibs: LU14016034442

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