Gordon Kelly Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kelly, Gordon Ray, 1924-2018
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content: Gordon Kelly papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet (Box 1)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1942-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kellgord, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Correspondence consists mainly of letters from Kenneth Hayes Miller concerning Miller's manuscript, "The Third Dimension of Painting," letters concerning the activities of the Art Students League, and letters concerning Christian art. Three contracts detail Kelly's employment at the Art Students League (1949-1951). 

Writings include an unpublished manuscript by Kelly about Miller's theories; an edited typescript of Miller's lecture "The Third Dimension in Painting" and five typescripts explicating Kelly's theories about Christian art: "Aesthetics: A Christocentric View," "Art Renewed: A Vision of Christian Art," "Art and Conscience in Pluralism," "The Artist with Theological Presuppositions," and "Art, Christianity and Culture."

Printed material consists of clippings, eight exhibition announcements and catalogs including three from Miller's memorial exhibitions, a 1967 program for "I Am the Way," miscellaneous printed material concerning Nancy Boas' book The Society of Six: California Colorists, a 1950 brochure for the Art Students League and a picture postcard of St. Michael Church, Brookville, Indiana.

Artwork consists of two ink figure sketches, and photographs includes a group photograph of Art Students League instructors, among them Kelly, Robert Ward Johnson, Louis Bouche, and John Carroll, and three photographs of works of art.