Donald Kelley is a painter who was born in Belmont, MA in 1928. From 1952 until 1957, he was a diploma student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. From there, he received the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship to work for two years in Europe and North Africa. Upon returning to the United States in 1960, he attended the Yale School of Art and Architecture earning a B.F.A. and M.F.A. Kelley has exhibited across the United States and abroad, has held residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and MacDowell, and won the 1957 Graphic Arts and Drawing prize at the Boston Arts Festival. Many of his drawings are in oil, pastel, ink, and charcoal and he has also created sculptures, mobiles, lithographs, woodcuts, and etchings.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Donald Kelley
Discipline:
Visual Art
Region: Boston, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966, 1968, 1973
Studios
Eastman
Donald Kelley worked in the Eastman studio.
Thanks to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise Eastman, this century-old farm building was reinvented as a modern, energy efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built in 1915 to house a forge and provide storage when the residency program was expanding, this small barn was simply converted for…