Henry Keller

She took orders for busts in crayon and hired artists to draw them. In this way she met young Keller, and Guineveer, her romance. Henry made portraits for the mother. Educated here (Cleveland) and in Munich. He was one of a small galaxy of local artists who have won honors in more metropolitan centers. He is a pioneer of the city’s higher cultural life. A harder, or mor conscientious worker can not be found. He maintains his better than average constitution, inherited from German-born parents, by regular life and exemplary habits. He is the only noted artist who doesn’t smoke, that I ever heard of. Cigarettes seem the sustenance of the artistic temperament. Henry teaches painting at the Art School and specializes in animal life and watercolor. I have one of his best. His canvasses are distinguished more for the excellence of their technique and craftsmanship than for creative genius. I found Keller a zealous devotee of his profession and outside of it, enough of a cynic to be realistic. In a word he is master of a fine art, man of fine character and characteristically German. His home was originally a farm house owned by his father before Cleveland grew up to be a city." In 1939, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is watercolor. Frederick Gottwald is recorded as an influence. Work by Henry Keller is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Phillips Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art and Print Collection.

• Name — Henry Keller • Born — April 3, 1869 • Known for — Watercolor painting • Education — Cleveland School of Art • Movement — Cleveland School