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Marie Tuicillo Kelly

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 150.00 USD
Marie Tuicillo Kelly
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21.5" by 27.5" framed. Born Marie Tuicillo, Kelly credited her mother and grandmother both "fine needle workers," as influences. During her high school years, she began night and summer art classes at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh and her teachers included Samuel Rosenburgh and Robert Lepper: Later she worked as a department store display artist. As a married woman and mother of three sons, Kelly did painting and drawing during the day and worked on tapestries during the evening with her family at home. Recognitions and exhibits include Associated Artist of Pittsburgh exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art; a Special 1964 issue of Craft Horizons magazine celebrating "The American Craftsman"; the Three Rivers Arts Festival "10 for 10" show, celebrating artists who have been juried in to the festival each year of it's first decade; and 1961 Pittsburgh Center For the Arts Artist of the Year: Among her collectors are Andre Previn, Walter Cronkite, Barbra Streisand, Elaine de Kooning, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Clare Bloom and David Merrick. Her work is also in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown Ohio, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. A 1974 silkscreen, Picnic Fiesole, is part of the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art.