James kelly longboard biography of mahatma
James kelly longboard biography of mahatma
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James Kelly (artist)
American abstract expressionist artist
James Alphonsus Kelly (December 19, 1913 – June 29, 2003)[1][failed verification] 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 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;[2] and from 1951 to 1954, 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.[2] Returni