“Born in Alba, IN on Nov. 8, 1886. Kelley studied at the ASL of NYC and in Paris. Upon returning from France, he eked out a precarious living doing pen-and-ink drawings for newspapers in NYC. With his new wife Edith Summers, he lived briefly in New Jersey and Kentucky before settling in San Diego in 1924 (1).”
Throughout his career he specialized in figurative, genre subjects that depicted American life in the 1930s-1950?€™s; his paintings mirrored the paintings of the American WPA movement, yet retained a sense of expressionism (2).”
“There [in Kentucky] he taught life drawing and worked with Donal Hord on sculpture projects. He was active in San Diego until 1945 when he moved north to Los Gatos. His final years were spent as a resident of Castro Valley, CA where he died on Sept. 8, 1965. Kelley is best known for his pen-and-ink drawings, lithographs, drypoint and bitten-line etchings (1)”.
Works Cited
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Askart [internet]. [cited April 24, 2015]. Available from: http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?searchtype=BIO&artist=10029103
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Trigg Ison Fine Art [internet]. [cited April 24, 2015]. Available from: https://www.1stdibs.com/art/paintings/figurative-paintings/clyde-frederick-kelley-ladies-night/id-a_29231/