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James Kelly (December 12, 1913 – June 29, 2003) was an American abstract expressionist artist whose career spanned nearly seven decades. Primarily a painter, Kelly also created graphic work especially during his early years in San Francisco from 1950 to 1953. ==Biography== James Kelly was born in Philadelphia, the son of a shoe manufacturer. He studied at the School of Industrial Arts (now the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in 1937, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in 1938, at the Barnes Foundation in 1941 where he had a scholarship〔Acton, David, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints, The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 2001, p. 112. ISBN 90-5349-353-0〕 and from 1951-54 at the California School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute). He interrupted his art career by enlisting in the Air Force in World War II, serving in the Pacific repairing the ultra-secret Norden bombsight for Boeing B-24 planes for the entirety of the war.〔 Returning to Philadelphia after being discharged, he continued painting while working at his father's shoe factory. Kelly relocated to San Francisco in 1950 to join his friend, painter John Lynch, enrolling at the California School under the GI Bill. It was there that he produced several significant lithographic works. One of them, "Deep Blue I" from 1952, is considered a masterpiece by Charles Dean, whose Abstract Expressionist collection was acquired by the Library of Congress.〔"Collector's Eye: Abstract Expressionist Prints", Forbes Collector, November 2005, Vol. 3, No. 11, p. 6.〕 Kelly has been categorized as a "second-generation" abstract expressionist.〔Landauer, Susan, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, p.237n11, The University of California Press, 1996, p. 52. ISBN 978-0-520-08611-1〕 In 1953 Kelly married painter Sonia Gechtoff; the couple became fixtures in the roiling art community of the day. He supplemented his artist's income with jobs as a preparator at the San Francisco Museum of Art〔 and as a bartender at The Place.〔Albright, Thomas, "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1950: An Illustrated History", p. 52, University of California Press, 1985, p. 52. ISBN 978-0-520-05518-6〕 Kelly and Gechtoff moved to New York in 1958. He worked at Grove Press for several years, leaving to concentrate on his painting which continued uninterrupted for the rest of his career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Kelly (abstract expressionist artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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