Professor Franklin Kelly
American Art

Art History & Archaeology
Mail: 1211-D Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1335
Email: f-kelly@nga.gov
Telephone: (202) 842-6101

Franklin Kelly is a historian of American art--with particular expertise in the study of nineteenth-century landscape painting--and a curator of American and British painting at the National Gallery of Art. He is the author of Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape (1988) and organized the National Gallery's 1989 exhibition devoted to the artist's work. He co-organized the exhibition Winslow Homer, on view at the National Gallery in 1995-1996. Professor Kelly's essays on Thomas Cole, Church, Fitz Hugh Lane, Jasper Cropsey, George Bellows, Homer and related subjects, have appeared in Antiques, Winterthur Portfolio, Beaux-Arts, Arts in Virginia and in numerous anthologies and exhibition catalogues. He is a frequent lecturer on American topics at universities and museums throughout the country. He is currently conducting research for a book entitled: In the Realm of Landscape: Essays on Thomas Cole, and for an exhibition on international Romantic landscape painting.