1869-1949

Henry Keller began studying art at the Western Reserve School of Design in Cleveland from 1887 to 1892, and continued with studies in Germany through the early 1900's. In 1902, Keller began a forty-year tenure as professor of art at the Cleveland School of Art and also developed a summer school in Berlin Heights from 1903 to the 1920's. He was a champion of European modernist tendencies in painting, and excelled in both watercolor and oil media, with animal life and landscapes as favorite subjects. He exhibited works locally and nationally, and was unique in Cleveland for having two pieces in the famous Armory Show of 1913.