Henry George Keller - Figure Study

Figure Study

Henry George Keller's "Figure Study" is an original drawing created by the American artist around 1920. It is drawn upon toned wove paper and with full margins and is signed with Henry Keller's distinctive signature along the lower right margin. "Figure Study" is a superb example of the art created by this influential American artist.

Figure Study

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Henry George Keller (Cleveland, 1869 - San Diego, 1949)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01.-		Figure Study by Henry George Keller	Original Drawing	c. 1920	Signed with Henry Keller's distinctive signature.
02.-		Pig Study by Henry George Keller	Original Drawing	c. 1925 - 1945	Annotated on the verso, "Henry Keller - Sketchbook", by the previous owner.	Sold
03-		In the Meadow by Henry George Keller	Original Etching	c. 1920 - 1930	Signed in pencil by Henry Keller.	Sold

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Title:	Figure Study
Artist:	Keller, Henry George 'Henry Keller' (Cleveland, 1869 - San Diego, 1949)
Date:	c. 1920
Medium:	Original Drawing
Note:	Henry George Keller 'Henry Keller': A very influential modernist American painter of the early twentieth century, Henry George Keller first studied art at the unlikely institution of the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, in 1887. Unable to find a teaching position in Cleveland he worked for eight years at the Morgan lithograph Company designing circus posters. In 1899, Henry Keller resumed his artistic education in Germany and studied at the art academies of Munich and Dusseldorf. His art received a silver medal at the 1902 Munich Kunstakademie exhibition. He returned to Cleveland in 1903 to begin teaching as an instructor of watercolor at the Cleveland School of Art. Henry George Keller also created his own informal school at his family home in Berlin Heights, Ohio, during the summers of 1903 through to 1914. As a teacher of watercolor and drawing techniques, Henry Keller's influence was vast. Some of his most important pupils from this period include Charles Burchfield, Paul Travis and Frank Wilcox.
	Beginning around 1910, Henry Keller championed the cause of modern art, both in his drawings and paintings and through his lectures and writings. In 1913 he exhibited two of his paintings at the now famous New York Armory Show, which introduced modern art to America. During the following years, Henry Keller's art was included in major exhibitions at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
	In his watercolors and other drawings, Henry George Keller was a tireless experimenter. Working quickly with sure and spontaneous strokes he was inspired by the avant-garde art of Mattise, Cezanne and others as well as the rhythmic lines of Chinese brush painting. One author writes,
	"Henry Keller's approach to watercolor was significantly influenced by his admiration for the economical brushwork, simplified forms, and rhythmic movement he observed in Chinese scroll paintings. ... In 1936 Charles Burchfield, who after studying with Henry Keller made watercolor his principal medium, commented: 'Some of his [Henry Keller's] best work has been done in transparent watercolor. In many of them he shows the influence of the Chinese, whom he has always admired and studied, not in any imitative manner, but in the fundamental sense that he has learned to say a great deal with economy of means and little apparent effort'" * This is the genesis of the art of Henry George Keller. In this amazing pen and ink drawing which is so simple and yet so true in its construction, one can surely agree that Keller had "learned to say a great deal with economy of means and little apparent effort".
	In May of 1920 the Art Institute of Chicago launched an exhibition entitled, "Wash Drawings by Henry George Keller". "Figure Study" was possibly included in this exhibition. On the verso, Henry Keller has made notations to "tip the drawing onto black board", no doubt for exhibiting purposes. (As the board was both brittle and acidic I have removed the drawing from it.)
Reference:	* W. H. Robinson & David Steinberg, "Transformations in Cleveland Art: 1796-1946", The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio University Press, 1996, p. 127.
Size:	12 1/2 X 7 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Drawn upon toned wove paper and with full margins. Signed with Henry Keller's distinctive signature along the lower right margin. Containing one very small tear (restored) along the upper edge of the paper, else in excellent condition throughout with unfaded tones and lines. "Figure Study" represents a superb example of the influential art of Henry George Keller.
Subject:	Henry George Keller, Henry Keller, Figure Study, original drawing, Cleveland Artists, his most important pupils from this period include Charles Burchfield, Paul Travis and Frank Wilcox, modern art, modernist American painter.
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Figure Study