Biography – Harold Keller

Born:     Brooklyn, New York, 1928   
Died:     Greenwich, New York, 2017

Education:

• New York University, MA, 1961
• Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (Art History), Summer 1959
• University of Oklahoma, Graduate Studies in Painting, 1949-1950
• University of Arkansas, BA (Art and Philosophy), 1949
• Brooklyn Technical High School, Class of ‘46

Teaching:     

• Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, 1965-1985
• Union College, Schenectady, NY, 1963-1965
• State University College, Oneonta, NY, 1962-1963
• Fort Smith Junior College, Fort Smith, AR, 1956-1962
• Arkansas Public High Schools: Ozark (1950-52), Alma (1952-53), Van Buren (1953-56)

Residencies:  

• Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1967, 1968
• SUNY, Albany, NY, 1966

Solo Exhibitions (some dates unknown)

• 2023    University of Arkansas, Fort Smith
• 2019    McCartee’s Barn, Salem, NY
• 1980    Maples Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
• 1970    Hemingway Galleries, NYC
• 1968    Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
• 1968    Campus Center Galleries, SUNY, Albany, NY
• 1967    Lawrence Stevens Gallery, Detroit, MI
• 1967    Spectrum Gallery, NYC
• 1967    The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
• 1966    State University Gallery, Albany, NY
• 1964    Venture Gallery, NYC
• 1964    Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY
• 1964    Union College, Schenectady, NY
• 1961    Seventh Street Galleries, Little Rock, AR
• 1960    Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman
• date?    Exhibitions 60, Fayetteville, AR
• date?    Eleanor King Gallery, Fayetteville, AR

Group Exhibitions (some dates unknown)

• 1968    The American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
• 1966     The Rensselaer Institute on Man and Science, Troy, NY
• 1965    The Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC
• 1965    The Popular Art Gallery, Troy, NY
• 1963    Artists of Central New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
• 1963    University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• 1961    Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK
• 1960    The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
• 1957    The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
• 1952-53    Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
• 1953    Religious Art, The Jewish Museum, NYC
• 1952    Denver Art Museum
• 1951    International Drawing Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
• date?    The Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
• 1950    Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
• date?   Arkansas Artists, Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, NYC
• 1947-1948    Jacques Seligman Galleries, NYC, 25 and Under, touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, 1947-48

Reviews/Articles/Publications

• Northwest Arkansas Democrat, Sept. 3, 2023, “Magic Realism: UAFS Gallery brings Harold Keller back to Arkansas”
• Hill Country Observer, “Local Scenes, literary themes: Exhibit samples works of longtime area artist, teacher Harold Keller”, August, 2019, article by Stacey Morris
• Arion, Third Series, vol.24, #3, Winter 2017, Boston University, Reproduction of 10 Iliad drawings, text by Victoria Keller
• Icons and Images of the Sixties, by Nicolas Calas and Elena Calas, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., NY, 1971
• Time Magazine, March 1970, Exhibition Review by Gene Thornton
• Arts Magazine, March 1970, Exhibition Review by Janet K. Hobhouse
• Art News, March, 1970, Exhibition Review by Sherry Nordstrom
• Pictures, February, 1970, Exhibition Review by GES
• City East, March 1970, Exhibition Review
• Harold Keller wrote exhibition reviews for Arts Magazine from 1967-1970
• 57^th Street Review, May 18, 1967, Exhibition Review by Gregory Battcock
• The New York Times, June 3, 1967, Exhibition Review by Grace Glueck
• Arts Magazine, June 1967, Exhibition Review by Nicolas Calas
• “Space Alive – Closed Open Space: The Paintings of Harold Keller”, in For Now, #8, by Robert Newman, 1967
• The Knickerbocker News, Albany, NY, April 22, 1966
• Albany Times Union, 1966, Exhibition review by T. H. Littlefield
• Artrends, “Harold Keller” October, 1962, article by Edgar A. Albin
• Arkansas Gazette, February 7, 1961, Review of exhibition at the Seventh Street Galleries, Little Rock, Ark
• Arkansas Democrat Magazine, February 19, 1961, “Young Artist’s Exhibit Draws Attention”, by Edgar A. Albin

Public Collections:

• Brandeis University, Rose Museum of Art
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, Pebley Center for Arkansas Historical and Cultural Materials
• University of Arkansas, Fort Smith
• University of Rochester, NY, Memorial Art Gallery
• Hofstra University
• The Columbus Museum, Georgia
• Union College, Schenectady, NY
• State University of New York, Albany
• University of Oklahoma, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
• The British Museum, Prints and Drawings Department
• The Tate Gallery, Prints and Drawings Department
• Private collections in the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy and Israel