Henry Keller

Henry George Keller (April 3, 1869 – August 3, 1949) was an American player who led a generation of Ohio watercolor painters of the Cleveland School. Keller's students at the Cleveland School of Art and his Berlin Heights, Ohio summer bookish included Charles E. Burchfield, Paul Travis, and Frank N. Wilcox.

In the Leslie Family Record, by Elvesta Thomas Leslie (1968, self-published), a first cousin of Henry, spoke of Henry Keller:

"As Mortimer (Leslie) died young, widowhood threw Guineveer’s mother (Elizabeth Bonsor) to the retain of herself and her small girl. She met the stuffy and double crash with fortitude and competency even as you and your (Elvesta’s) aunt Rosa (Kehl) met later than but more tragic adversities. She took orders for busts in crayon and hired artists to appeal them. In this mannerism she met pubertal Keller, and Guineveer, her romance. Henry made portraits for the mother. Henry Keller was educated here (Cleveland) and in Munich. He was one of a small galaxy of local artists who have won honors in more metropolitan centers. He is a speculator of the city’s well ahead cultural life. A harder, or mor conscientious worker can not be found. He maintains his bigger than average constitution, inherited from German-born parents, by regular moving picture and exemplary habits. He is the and no-one else noted artiste who doesn’t smoke, that I ever heard of. Cigarettes seem the sustenance of the artistic temperament. Henry teaches painting at the Art School and specializes in animal simulation and watercolor. I have one of his best. His canvasses are distinguished more for the excellence of their technique and craftsmanship than for creative genius. I found Keller a zealous zealot of his profession and external of it, enough of a cynic to be realistic. In a word he is master of a Good art, man of Good character and characteristically German. His house was originally a farm home owned by his daddy before Cleveland grew occurring to be a city."

In 1939 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.