Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport,... Read full biography
Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, Kaelin's colorful renderings of Cape Ann scenery were championed by many of his... Read full biography
Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, Kaelin's colorful renderings of Cape Ann scenery were championed by many of his fellow artists, including Frank Duveneck, one of the first to recognize the high quality and innovative nature of his work. Kaelin was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Swiss lithographer. Following... Read full biography
Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, Kaelin's colorful renderings of Cape Ann scenery were championed by many of his fellow artists, including Frank Duveneck, one of the first to recognize the high quality and innovative nature of his work. Kaelin was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Swiss lithographer. Following in his father's footsteps, he entered a local lithographic firm at the age of sixteen. In the fall of 1877, he enrolled in evening classes at the McMicken School of Design (later known as the Art Academy of Cincinnati), where he was taught by Thomas... Read full biography
Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, Kaelin's colorful renderings of Cape Ann scenery were championed by many of his fellow artists, including Frank Duveneck, one of the first to recognize the high quality and innovative nature of his work. Kaelin was born in Cincinnati in 1858, the son of a Swiss lithographer. Following in his father's footsteps, he entered a local lithographic firm at the age of sixteen. In the fall of 1877, he enrolled in evening classes at the McMicken School of Design (later known as the Art Academy of Cincinnati), where he was taught by Thomas Satterwhite Noble. During the summer or fall of 1878 Kaelin supplemented his studies at the McMicken by taking additional instruction from Joh... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (24)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Art for the New Collector III Re-Emerging American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Pyle, Amy (Spanierman Gallery)
68 pages (color)
Art for the New Collector II Re-Emerging American Artists (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Editor: Spanierman Gallery
64 pages (color)
Art for the New Collector 1840-2001 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Spanierman Gallery
48 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC) (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Spanierman, Deborah (essay)
136 pages (color)
Tranquil America: A Century of Painting, 1840-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Editor, Spanierman Gallery
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Triumph of Color and Light: Ohio Impressionists and Post Impressionists (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Kany, James M; Nannette V. Maciejunes
170 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Dialogues with Nature Works by Charles Sali Kaelin (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Lowrey, Carol/Richard J Boyle
71 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Works on Paper III (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Spanierman Gallery
150 pages (color)
American Works on Paper II (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Spanierman Gallery
144 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Artists of the Rockport Art Association, 1980: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
1980
Lippincott, Miriam, editor
0 pages
The Golden Age: Cincinnati Painters of the Nineteenth Century Represented in the Cincinnati Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Rogers, Millard F Jr.; Denny Carter, Bruce Weber
218 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit