Sir Gerald Kelly PRA
Born 9 April 1879
Died 5 January 1972
Active: 1922 - 1930
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, printmaker, etcher
Born in London
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
21 April 1922 - 11 February 1930
Elected RA in 1930.
Elected PRA Royal Academy of Arts
8 December 1949 - 7 December 1954
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
11 February 1930 - 1 January 1955
Then became Senior RA until his death in 1972. Was also PRA from 1949-1954 [see separate person-organisation relationship].
Vice-patron of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1949
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
14 December 1931
For RA.
Nominator of Frank Owen Dobson
2 December 1933
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA].
Sources
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.149, p.203.
Royal Academy of Arts, Directory of Membership, from its Foundation in 1768 to 1995 including Honorary Members
1996
pp.67-68.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1949, to be Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual General Meeting, 1950
February 1950
p. 3.
Citing this record
'Sir Gerald Kelly PRA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1216994222, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
