Biografie von Muriel Chamberlain KELSEY (XX)

Birth place: Milford, NH

Addresses: NYC, Dobbs Ferry, NY; Sarasota, FL

Profession: Sculptor, painter

Studied: Univ. New Hampshire (B.S., 1919); Univ. Vermont, 1921; Teachers College, Columbia Univ., 1933; New Sch. Soc. Res., 1934; Sculpture Center New York with Dorothea Denslow.

Exhibited: CAFA; PAFA Ann., 1938; Newark Mus., 1943; Clay Club, 1935-46; Sculpture Center, NYC, 1934-; Audubon Artists, New York, 1958-62; NAD, 1959-62; Harmon Gal., Naples, FL, 1964-; Third Sculpture Int., Fairmount Park AA, Phila.; Oehlschlaeger Gals., Chicago, IL, 1970s. Awards: Sarasota Festival Arts, 1953; Art Lg. Manatee Co., 1959; first prize, Longboat Key AC, 1965.

Member: Clay Club; Sculpture Center New York.

Work: Commissions: "Dancing Pickaninny" (bronze statuette), Brookgreen Gardens Mus., SC, 1937.

Comments: Preferred medium: stone. Teaching: asst. zoology lab., Univ. New Hampshire, 1920; asst. zoology lab., Univ. Vermont, 1921.

Sources: WW73; WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.