biografia di Weldon KEES (1914-1955)

Birth place: Beatrice, NE

Addresses: NYC; Point Richmond, CA

Profession: Abstract painter, writer, critic

Studied: Univ. Nebraska (A.B.); Univ. Denver (B.S.)

Exhibited: WMAA, 1949-50; Am. Abstract Artists, 1949; Peridot Gal., 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952 (solos); CPLH, 1951.

Comments: He was active in Provincetown, MA, 1949. Position: art critic, The Nation, 1949-50. Auth.: The Last Man, 1943; The Fall of the Magicians, 1947. Contr. articles, New York Times, Magazine of Art, Partisan Review, The Nation.

Sources: WW59; Kuchta and Seckler, Provincetown Painters, 206