Born in Co. Louth, Frances Kelly studied at the Metropolitan school of Art in Dublin and later for three years in Paris under Léopold Survage. She exhibited at the RHA for the first time in 1929 and continued to show there until the late 1930s.
Kelly was the first holder of the Henry Higgins traveling scholarship in 1932. As a prominent member of the Dublin Painters Society from the 1940s, Kelly exhibited there as well as showing her work at the Oireachtas and the Irish Exhibition o
f Living Art. She also held four one-man shows at the Dawson gallery.
Frances Kelly's work featured in "Irish Women Artists : 1870-1970" (2014) exhibition. Please click here to view the catalogue.
Her work also featured in "A celebration of Irish Art and Modernism" (2011) Exhibition. Please click here to view the catalogue.
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