Eileen Kelly Retrospective

Frankfort resident and artist Eileen Kelly had an early fascination with the arts and design. At 19, her design for a women’s fashionable shoe was manufactured “under mysterious circumstances”. She married soon after and explored drawing and painting with her sons. In her 40’s, Eileen pursued art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Manhattanville College in Harrison, New York, and the Silvermine Art Center in New Canaan, Connecticut. She studied with watercolorist, Charles Reid, Russian iconographer Vladislav Andreev, watercolorist Roland Roycraft and artist Charles Murphy. Eileen will celebrate her 96th birthday this year, and we are thrilled to host this retrospective exhibit of her work from the past several decades. From pastels to oils, still life to landscape, Eileen has a diverse range of subjects and styles – each brought to life by her keen eye for composition and seemingly effortless brushstrokes.