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Artist: Tom Kelley
Man with Surfboard
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Man with Surfboard
c. 1950's
C print
30 x 22 inches
Estate signed edition of 45
Caption: Young man holding surfboard on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more t...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Tom Kelley 'California Beach Kids'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Beach Kids
c. 1960's
C print
30 x 38 inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: ...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tom Kelley 'California Beach Kids'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Beach Kids
c. 1960's
C print
30 x 38 inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: ...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tom Kelley 'California Beach Kids'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Beach Kids
c. 1960's
C print
22 x 28 inches
Edition of 45
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: ...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man with Surfboard
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Man with Surfboard
c. 1950's
C print
38 x 30 inches
Estate signed edition of 45
Caption: Young man holding surfboard on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more t...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Man with Surfboard
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Man with Surfboard
c. 1950's
C print
38 x 30 inches
Estate signed edition of 45
Caption: Young man holding surfboard on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more t...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Tom Kelley 'Corky Carroll at Zuma Beach'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Corky Carroll at Zuma beach
c. 1960's
C print
16 x 20 inches
Edition of 50
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the ...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man with Surfboard
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Man with Surfboard
c. 1950's
C print
30 x 22 inches
Estate signed edition of 45
Caption: Young man holding surfboard on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more t...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Tom Kelley 'Corky Carroll at Zuma Beach'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Corky Carroll at Zuma beach
c. 1960's
C print
30 x 38 inches
Edition of 25
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Caption: Woman Lying in Bed Portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an apprentice in a New York photo studio that catered to the city's upper 400 (i.e. photographing the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Harrimans, the Morgans, etc.). One of his biggest spot news assignments was covering the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
Coming to California, Kelley was retained to photograph the stars created by David 0. Selznick and Samuel Goldwyn including Ingrid Bergman. A few of his other most famous subjects have been Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Winston Churchill, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt and, of course, Marilyn Monroe, with and without clothes. His easiest photo subject? Clark Gable. His toughest? Joan Bennett.
Following a long and profitable career helping to publicize motion picture personalities, he drifted the commercial advertising/photography field where he has remained as one of the leading exponents in the business. Of course, his most famous image was of Marilyn Monroe nude...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
California Surfer
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfer
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Surfer holding surfboard on beach.
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an app...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Friends with surfboards in car on beach
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Surfers with Surfboards
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfers with Surfboards
c. 1960's
C print
16 x 16 inches
Caption: Group of surfers running in water with surfboards, smiling
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more t...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Garden Telephone
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Garden Telephone
c. 1960's
C print
60 x 40 inches
Caption: Young woman sitting in garden using telephone
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: fi...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Woman Sitting by the Sea
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman Sitting by the Sea
c. 1950's
C print
60 x 40 inches
Caption: Young woman sitting on rock beside sea, smiling, portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more ...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Young Woman in Swimming Pool
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman Sitting by the Sea
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Young woman in swimming pool, portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting ...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
California Surfer
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfer
c. 1950's
C print
40 x 30 inches
Caption: Surfer holding surfboard on beach.
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first started as an app...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Surfers with Surfboards
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Surfers with Surfboards
c. 1960's
C print
16 x 16 inches
Caption: Group of surfers running in water with surfboards, smiling
Tom Kelley (1914-1984) was a mid-century mod...
Category
1960s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Friends with surfboards in car on beach
c. 1950's
C print
16 x 20 inches
Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Diving Board Balance
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Diving Board Balance
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Woman touching water with foot
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than four decades: first starte...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Young Woman in Swimming Pool
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman Sitting by the Sea
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Young woman in swimming pool, portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting ...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Woman Sitting by the Sea
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman Sitting by the Sea
c. 1950's
C print
60 x 40 inches
Caption: Young woman sitting on rock beside sea, smiling, portrait
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more ...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Friends with surfboards in car on beach
c. 1950's
C print
16 x 20 inches
Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Friends with surfboards in car on beach
c. 1950's
C print
16 x 20 inches
Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Tom Kelley 'Woman with Umbrella'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman With Umbrella
c. 1950's
C print
38 x 32 inches
Caption: Woman in bikini sitting on beach holding umbrella, smiling, portrait.
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spa...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Friends with surfboards in Ford Mustangs
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Friends with surfboards in car on beach
c. 1950's
C print
24 x 20 inches
Caption: Friends with surfboards in car on beach
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spans more than...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
Tom Kelley 'Woman with Umbrella'
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Woman With Umbrella
c. 1950's
C print
38 x 32 inches
Caption: Woman in bikini sitting on beach holding umbrella, smiling, portrait.
Tom Kelley’s interesting career spa...
Category
1950s Modern Tom Kelley Figurative Photography
Materials
C Print
Price Upon Request
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