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Francis Kelly - Oil on Canvas - Women Waiting Nazarre
Certified DealerApproved item2098 sales by dealerAvailable for local pick-up
Certified DealerApproved item2098 sales by dealerAvailable for local pick-up
Description
Francis Kelly (1927-2012) - Oil on Canvas - Women Waiting Navarre c1970's
Francis Kelly was born in 1927 in St. Paul Minnesota. He received his early education in Chicago and California. He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1948 when he entered the Art Center School, Los Angeles.
During 1951 in 1952 he lived in Paris, attending the Academie de la Grande, Chaumiere. In 1953 he went to the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and then to the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was graphic laboratory assistant to John Paul Jones.
Awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1955 he came to the Graphic Department of the Central School, London. The St. George's Gallery first introduced his etchings in Britain. In 1958 Kelly was awarded the Stacy Grant for painting. His work has been shown at Royal Academy Exhibitions and he has traveled extensively.
In 1966 he was appointed Art organizer for the U.S. Embassy "Festival of Arts in Humanities". His paintings were shown in the exhibition "Five American Artists in Britain". During 1976 he acted in a similar capacity on behalf of Windsor & Newton Ltd., who sponsored an exhibition of American artists commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. He appeared in the film "Science in Art".
Kelly has studied painting conservation at the Courtald Institute. In 1967 he was sent to the Italian Art and Archives Rescue Fund to Florence to restore flood damage paintings. In 1971 his book, Art Restoration, was published by David and Charles and in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill. His second book, the Studio and The Artist was published in1975.
measurements
Height:
75 cm
Width:
95 cm
Depth:
5 cm
measurements
declaration
Marlborough Antiques & Interiors has clarified that the Francis Kelly - Oil on Canvas - Women Waiting Nazarre (LA443970) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being Mid Century