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1884 Bucyrus, Ohio - 1955 Brown County, Texas. Known for: Primitive landscape, rural scene.
Naive western genre and landscape painter Harold Osman Kelly, was born on March 6, 1884 in Bucyrus, Ohio. The pattern of Kelly's later life was apparently established in his youth by the roving,... Read full biography
Naive western genre and landscape painter Harold Osman Kelly, was born on March 6, 1884 in Bucyrus, Ohio. The pattern of Kelly's later life was apparently established in his youth by the roving, gypsy life he led with his family in moves to Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Nicknamed... Read full biography
Naive western genre and landscape painter Harold Osman Kelly, was born on March 6, 1884 in Bucyrus, Ohio. The pattern of Kelly's later life was apparently established in his youth by the roving, gypsy life he led with his family in moves to Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Nicknamed "H. O." or "Cowboy," Kelly's later life would be little changed. He left home early, enthused by the lore of the American West, with dreams of making a living on horseback. He worked in thirty states,... Read full biography
Naive western genre and landscape painter Harold Osman Kelly, was born on March 6, 1884 in Bucyrus, Ohio. The pattern of Kelly's later life was apparently established in his youth by the roving, gypsy life he led with his family in moves to Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Nicknamed "H. O." or "Cowboy," Kelly's later life would be little changed. He left home early, enthused by the lore of the American West, with dreams of making a living on horseback. He worked in thirty states, including Arizona, Nebraska, Wyoming, Arkansas and Oklahoma, as a cowboy, sheepherder, cowhand, logger, bullwhacker, grainfield and cottonfield worker, sharecropper, and, occasionally, rodeo rider. Kelly described himself, in a quote from Time... Read full biography
Naive western genre and landscape painter Harold Osman Kelly, was born on March 6, 1884 in Bucyrus, Ohio. The pattern of Kelly's later life was apparently established in his youth by the roving, gypsy life he led with his family in moves to Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Nicknamed "H. O." or "Cowboy," Kelly's later life would be little changed. He left home early, enthused by the lore of the American West, with dreams of making a living on horseback. He worked in thirty states, including Arizona, Nebraska, Wyoming, Arkansas and Oklahoma, as a cowboy, sheepherder, cowhand, logger, bullwhacker, grainfield and cottonfield worker, sharecropper, and, occasionally, rodeo rider. Kelly described himself, in a quote from Time magazine, as "becoming something of a nomad himself, a rambler, a restless fiddlefoot who never stopped traveling until he was too old to roam." .... Read full biography
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Keywords (15)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Cowboys
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Rural Scene, Countryside, Farms and/or Barns
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Alaska Before 1940
- •Texas Before 1940
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
- •Self Taught, Autodidact