Henry Keller, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1869
Date of Death: 03-Aug-1949
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Henry Keller
- Henry George Keller (April 3, 1869 – August 3, 1949) was an American artist who led a generation of Ohio watercolor painters of the Cleveland School.
- Keller's students at the Cleveland School of Art and his Berlin Heights, Ohio summer school included Charles E.
- Burchfield, Paul Travis, and Frank N.
- Wilcox. In the Leslie Family Record, by Elvesta Thomas Leslie (1968, self-published), a first cousin of Henry, spoke of Henry Keller: "As Mortimer (Leslie) died young, widowhood threw Guineveer’s mother (Elizabeth Bonsor) to the support of herself and her small girl.
- She met the heavy and double misfortune with fortitude and competency even as you and your (Elvesta’s) aunt Rosa (Kehl) met like but more tragic adversities.
- She took orders for busts in crayon and hired artists to draw them.
- In this way she met young Keller, and Guineveer, her romance.
- Henry made portraits for the mother.
- Henry Keller was educated here (Cleveland) and in Munich.
- He was one of a small galaxy of local artists who have won honors in more metropolitan centers.
- He is a pioneer of the city’s higher cultural life.
- A harder, or mor conscientious worker can not be found.
- He maintains his better than average constitution, inherited from German-born parents, by regular life and exemplary habits.
- He is the only noted artist who doesn’t smoke, that I ever heard of.
- Cigarettes seem the sustenance of the artistic temperament.
- Henry teaches painting at the Art School and specializes in animal life and watercolor.
- I have one of his best.
- His canvasses are distinguished more for the excellence of their technique and craftsmanship than for creative genius.
- I found Keller a zealous devotee of his profession and outside of it, enough of a cynic to be realistic.
- In a word he is master of a fine art, man of fine character and characteristically German.
- His home was originally a farm house owned by his father before Cleveland grew up to be a city." In 1939 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
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