An accomplished watercolorist who became an influential art critic, Grace Kelly was born to Irish parents in Cleveland. She began her studies at the Cleveland School of Art when she was fifteen.... Read full biography
An accomplished watercolorist who became an influential art critic, Grace Kelly was born to Irish parents in Cleveland. She began her studies at the Cleveland School of Art when she was fifteen. After graduation in 1896, she taught mechanical drawing and watercolor painting at the school until 1904... Read full biography
An accomplished watercolorist who became an influential art critic, Grace Kelly was born to Irish parents in Cleveland. She began her studies at the Cleveland School of Art when she was fifteen. After graduation in 1896, she taught mechanical drawing and watercolor painting at the school until 1904 when she left to pursue a career in commercial art which lasted until 1926. In that year she became the art critic, and later art editor, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1911, Kelly co-founded the... Read full biography
An accomplished watercolorist who became an influential art critic, Grace Kelly was born to Irish parents in Cleveland. She began her studies at the Cleveland School of Art when she was fifteen. After graduation in 1896, she taught mechanical drawing and watercolor painting at the school until 1904 when she left to pursue a career in commercial art which lasted until 1926. In that year she became the art critic, and later art editor, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1911, Kelly co-founded the Women's Art Club of Cleveland. She received numerous prizes for paintings exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art and had three paintings accepted to the Paris Salon of 1927. Kelly initially developed a reputation for her... Read full biography
An accomplished watercolorist who became an influential art critic, Grace Kelly was born to Irish parents in Cleveland. She began her studies at the Cleveland School of Art when she was fifteen. After graduation in 1896, she taught mechanical drawing and watercolor painting at the school until 1904 when she left to pursue a career in commercial art which lasted until 1926. In that year she became the art critic, and later art editor, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1911, Kelly co-founded the Women's Art Club of Cleveland. She received numerous prizes for paintings exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art and had three paintings accepted to the Paris Salon of 1927. Kelly initially developed a reputation for her watercolor paintings. She employed a traditional academic technique in her early ye... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (12)
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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
Breaking With Tradition: Ohio Women Painters, 1870-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Shearer, Christine Fowler
64 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Robinson, William H; David Steinburg
0 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art
78 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay)
32 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index