Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

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Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8349718

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

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Kees, Weldon, 1914-1955?

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Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice NE in 1914. He attended Doane College in Crete, NE and the University of Missouri. Known mainly as a poet, Kees also published short stories and wrote for Time magazine and Paramount's newsreel service. In the 1940's he took up painting and was involved in the establishment of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In 1950 he moved to San Francisco and began collaborating on songs with Robert Helms. He disappeared in July, 1954. From the description of ...