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Birth
1901 (Perpignan, France)
Death
1982 (Long Beach Island, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
Pennsylvania/New Jersey / France
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surreal figure-genre and non ob easel painting, mural
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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, Juli (showing 500 of 3868 characters). |
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