biographie de Ellen Burke KEY-OBERG (1905-?)

Birth place: Marion, AL

Addresses: NYC; La Jolla, CA

Profession: Sculptor, teacher

Studied: Cooper Union (grad.)

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1942, 1949-54; MMA (AV), 1942; All. Artists Am., 1941; Audubon Artists, 1943-44 (first prize & hon. men.), 1945; Art Lg. Am.; Lg. Present-Day Artists; NY Soc. Ceramic Artists; NYSWA; Howard Univ., Washington, DC; Studio Guild, 1938 (prize); Russell Sage Found., New York; NAD, 1943; Nat. Ceramic Ann., Syracuse Mus. & Traveling Shows, 1943-54; WMAA Ann., 1953; NAWA, 1959 (Pauline Law Prize).

Member: Art Lg. Am.; Lg. Present-Day Artists; NY Soc. Ceramic Artists; NYSWA; Audubon Artists; Sculpture Guild; Sculpture Center; Audubon Artists; NAWA

Work: Norfolk (VA) Mus.; Univ. Wisconsin.

Comments: Preferred media: wood, stone, terra-cotta. Teaching: Chapin Sch., 1937-70s; MoMA, War Veterans Center, NYC; Arts Workshop, Newark (NJ) Mus., 1955-65.

Sources: WW73; Jacques Schnier, Sculpture in Modern America (Univ. Calif. Press, 1948); John B. Kenny, Ceramic Sculpture (Greenberg, 1953) & Ceramic Design (Chilton, 1963); WW47; Falk, Exh. Record Series.