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Paul Keene

1920-2009

Works in the Collection

PFF125-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #2 - Seated Woman Facing Away, Pencil, 1950. Drawing depicts a female nude figure facing away and seated on a chair.
Paris Sketch #2 – Seated Woman Facing Away
1950

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PFF124-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #1- Seated Woman on Lap, Pencil, 1950. Drawing depicts seated nude female with her hand on the top of her thigh.
Paris Sketch #1- Seated Woman on Lap
1950

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PFF129-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #6 - Man and Women, Ink, 1950. Drawing depicts a male and female nude seated figures in an embrace.
Paris Sketch #6 – Man and Women
1950

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PFF128-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #5 - Seated Woman, Ink, 1950. Drawing depicts a seated nude female resting on one arm.
Paris Sketch #5 – Seated Woman
1950

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PFF127-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #4 - Standing Woman, Charcoal, 1950. Drawing depicts female nude in three quarter view.
Paris Sketch #4 – Standing Woman
1950

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PFF126-Paul Keene, Paris Sketch #3 - Seated Woman Leaning On Arms, Charcoal, 1950. Drawing depicts a seated nude female leaning back against both arms.
Paris Sketch #3 – Seated Woman Leaning On Arms
1950

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PFF122-Paul Keene, Jazz Series - Quintet, Charcoal, 1983. Jazz musicians including pianist, drummer, and trumpet, flute, and saxophone players.
Jazz Series – Quintet
1983

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PFF123-Paul Keene, Jazz Series #8 - Guitareal, Charcoal, 1983. African American male guitar player with stenciled letters and numbers in background.
Jazz Series #6 – Guitareal
1983

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PFF121-Paul Keene, Blue Dress, Acrylic, 1985. Seated woman in blue dress with red frame and lower right another frame with the silhouette of another figure.
Blue Dress
1985

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Biography

Paul Keene was born in 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Keene trained at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Tyler School of Art. Keene then used the GI Bill to study at the Academie Julian in Paris. While there, he helped found Gallerie 8, a gallery for American artists working in Paris. After a brief sojourn in Haiti, teaching and nurturing a nascent art scene in the early 1950’s, Keene returned to Philadelphia College of Art and Bucks County Community College for more than thirty years. His work can be found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the African American Museum of Philadelphia, British Museum in London, England, the Nigerian National Museum, and many others more. The artist died in 2009 in Warrington, Pennsylvania.

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