Correspondence, 1948-1990 (bulk 1948-1958).

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Correspondence, 1948-1990 (bulk 1948-1958).

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Chiefly 171 watercolor illustrated letters by H.O. Kelly, written to William Weber Johnson and his wife Elizabeth Ann Johnson between 1948 and 1955. These letters formed the basis for William Weber Johnson's research for Kelly blue, a biography of Kelly, first published by Doubleday in 1960, with a foreword by Western writer Tom Lea. Kelly Blue was later published in 1979 in a revised, illustrated edition by Texas A & M University Press. The illustrations for the second edition of Kelly Blue include reproductions of paintings owned by J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries at Texas A & M University. A smaller group of fifteen letters by H.O. Kelly are addressed to Dallas lawyer, Rudolph Johnson. Seventeen additional letters by Rudolph Johnson, typewritten on yellow paper between 1955 and 1958 are included. Of interest too is a letter to H.O. Kelly by Otto Kallir of the Galerie St. Etienne in New York City, requesting some of Kelly's works to be displayed in an exhibition of American primitive artists to be mounted at the Galerie early in 1952. Publications for a 1958 exhibition at the Smithsonian and a 1950 exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art are also present.

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Texas A&M University, Evans Library & Annex; Main campus library complex

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Doubleday and Company, inc.

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Biographical Note 1906, Feb. 25 Born, Madison, N.J. 1928 A.B., Willamette University,Salem, Oreg. 1930 Clerk, Doubleday & Co.'s Pennsylvania Station bookstore, New York, N.Y. 1934 ...

Kelly, Jessie

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Galerie St. Etienne.

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Smithsonian Institution

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The Smithsonian Institution was established on August 10, 1846, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the United States government. The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. Originally organized as the United States National Museum.James Smithson (1765-1829), a British scientist, left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusio...

Kallir, Otto, 1894-1978

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Otto Kallir (1894-1978) was an art collector and dealer who founded the Neue Gallerie in Vienna in 1923; he was forced to emigrate in 1938, leaving the operation of his gallery to the care of a colleague, and eventually settled in the U.S., where he opened the Galerie St. Etienne in New York City in 1939. Fanny Kallir (Franziska, Gräfin von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck) was Otto's wife; they were married in 1922. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1942-1958. (Univers...

Dallas museum of art

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Johnson, Elizabeth Ann.

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Lea, Tom, 1907-2001

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American artist and writer. From the description of Papers, 1889-1974 (bulk 1937-1974). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122648373 Tom Lea, artist and writer, was born in El Paso, Texas on July 11, 1907. After displaying a natural aptitude for painting and drawing as a child, Lea received formal training at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1924 to 1926 and as apprentice and assistant to the Chic...

Johnson, Rudolph, 1916-

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J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries

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Kelly, Harold Osman, 1884-1955

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Born in Bucyrus, Ohio, but lured out West as a youth, Harold Osman Kelly (1884-1955) traveled a long, hard road before turning his hand to painting as a means of support. Kelly's father was a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania railroader and his mother an Ohio born German. After losing his health to an itinerant working life and his farm in the Texas Panhandle to the Depression, Kelly was encouraged by friends to sell his watercolor and oil paintings for a living. As a significant primitive artist, ...

Johnson, William Weber, 1909-1992

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William Weber Johnson (b. 1909) worked as a newspaper reporter with papers in Illinois and Detroit before becoming a war correspondent for "Time" magazine in London. He eventually became the head of Time-Life bureaus in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Dallas, Boston, and Los Angeles. Johnson became a professor of Journalism at UCLA in 1961 and headed the department from 1966-1971. He also wrote several non-fiction books including "Kelly Blue" in 1960 and "Heroic Mexico" in 1968. From the ...