Keller, Deane, 1901-1992

Deane Keller was born in 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Albert Galloway Keller, the eminent Yale University sociologist. A graduate of Yale (B.A. 1923, B.F.A. 1926), Keller was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1926 until 1929, when he returned to Yale to teach drawing and painting in the School of the Fine Arts. Keller was regarded as the unofficial portrait artist of the Yale faculty, completing an estimated one hundred and sixty portraits of prominent Yale individuals during his career. During World War II, Keller served as a fine arts officer with the Fifth Army in Italy, where he was responsible for the identification, restoration, and return of artworks that had been damaged or plundered during the war. For his work in Italy, Keller was awarded the United States Legion of Merit, the Member of the British Empire medal, and the Order of St. John Lateran from the Vatican. Keller retired from the Yale faculty in 1970 and died in Hamden, Connecticut, in 1992.

From the description of Deane Keller papers, 1910-1983 (inclusive), 1943-1975 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702154860

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