ARTIST: Chapman Kelley (Texas, born 1932)
NAME: Nude - In the Field of Flowers
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 40 x 40 inches / 101 x 101 cm
FRAME SIZE: 41 x 41 inches / 104 x 104 cm
SIGNATURE: upper left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born in San Antonio, Texas 1932. Chapman Kelley's first New York exhibition was resoundingly received in 1963 (sold out and featured with color illustration in Life Magazine, Sept. 20, 1963). Since the middle fifties, Kelley has participated in many of this country's major national group exhibitions including: Pennsylvania Academy Annual, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.; Audubon Artist's Annual, New York; Mid-Year Show, Butler Art Institute, Youngstown Ohio; Young American Realists, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida; 20th Century Realists Exhibition, San Diego Museum; Pennsylvania Academy Exhibit of Former Students, Philadelphia; and the Midwest Biennial, Josyln Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. He has received an extraordinary number of honors including: $2500 Purchase Prize, Sun Carnival National Exhibit, El Paso Museum, 1969; Top Purchase Prize, Eight State Exhibit of Painting and Sculpture, Oklahoma City Museum of Art (formerly Oklahoma Art Center), 1965; Julian Onderdonk Memorial Purchase Prize; 1964 Texas Annual, for the permanent collection of the Witte Memorial Museum; 6th Annual Invitational Painting Exhibition, First Prize, Longview Museum of Fine Art, 1963; American Academy of Arts and Letters; Childe Hassam Fund Exhibition, 1963 Purchase Prize Award; and the National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1963 S.J. Wallace Truman Prize; $1000 First Prize State Fair of Texas, 22nd Annual Texas Painting and Sculpture, Dallas Museum of Art, 1960.Chapman Kelley attended the Hugo D. Pohl Art School at San Antonio for eight years, Trinity University for 2,5 years, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for 4 years. While at the Pennsylvania Academy, Kelley was awarded the William Emlen Cresson European Traveling Scholarship twice - 1954 and 1955 - and received Honorable Mention in the Thomas Eakins Figure Painting Competition in 1954 and won the Celia Beaux Portrait Painting Award in 1955.