Keller, Henry George

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Keller, Henry George

Keller, Henry George (1869-1949).

Figures and Umbrellas on Beach by Henry George Keller (1869-1949)

20.5" x 27", Mixed Media/Paper, Signed

Est.: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold by John Moran Auctioneers for $8,800 on 6/17/2003
ARTIST WORLD RECORD

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.

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.

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