Luman Pierre Kelsey Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kelsey, Luman Pierre, 1906-1961
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content: Luman Pierre Kelsey papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kelsluma, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: A biographical sketch of Luman Kelsey was written by Dorothea Storey Kelsey in a letter to the Archives of American Art. Additional scattered correspondence is with Dorothea Kelsey and institutions regarding Luman's artwork. A handwritten account by Luman describes his cast stone process when sculpting. Printed material consists of clippings and exhibition catalogs. Also found is a self-published guide to the Virgin Islands written by Sally Kelsey at the age of eleven and illustrated with her father Luman's works of art. Photographs include Kelsey's fine art photos and are also of works of art and of Luman in his studio creating ceramics.