Collections

Kelley is represented in over a thousand public and private collections distributed widely in over half the the states in the USA and three foreign countries including: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Former President Lyndon Johnson; El Paso Museum of Art; Ambassador George C. McGee; actress Kaye Ballard; artist Elaine de Kooning; Texas Instruments Incorporated; Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, Kansas; First National Bank of Dallas; Oklahoma Art Center; designer Joan “Tiger” Morse; and Dallasites Mr. & Mrs. Eugene McDermott, Oak Cliff Savings & Loan, American Savings Association, Apparel Mart of Dallas, El Centro and Mountainview Junior Colleges (gifts of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene McDermott); William & Elizabeth Hayden Museum of American Art, Paris, Texas.

One-Man Exhibitions

2006 - George Goodenow Private Dealer, Dallas, Texas
2006 - New Paintings and Drawings, Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1998 - Art of the Sea, Thomaston, Maine
1998 - Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1988 - Jon Cicero Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1987 - Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois
1981 - 1982 Dallas Museum of Natural History, Wildflower Works and Retrospective Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
1979 - (Wildflower Works II) Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1978 - Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee
1977 - (Wildflower Works I) Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1977 - Mulvane Arts Center of Topeka, Washburne University, Topeka, Kansas
1974 - Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1973 - Vincent Mann Gallery New Orleans. Louisiana
1970 - Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1970 - Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
1969 - Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1969 - Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan
1969 - 331 Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1967 - Dos Cruces Gallery, Corpus Christi, Texas
1967 - Ten Year Survey, Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1966 - The Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1965 - Lake Charles Art Association, Lake Charles, Louisiana
1965 - Wichita Falls Art Association, Wichita Falls, Texas
1964 - Galere de Tours, San Francisco, California
1964 - Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, New York
1963 - Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, New York
1962 - Atelier Chapman Kelley, Dallas, Texas
1961 - Centennial Museum, Corpus Christi, Texas
1960 - Houston Galleries, Houston, Texas
1959 - Atelier Chapman Kelley Dallas, Texas
1959 - Nancy Negley, Austin, Texas 1958 - Mary Nye Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1957 - Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, Texas
1957 - Mary Nye Gallery, spring, Dallas, Texas
1957 - Mary Nye Gallery, autumn, Dallas, Texas
1956 - Bright Shawl, San Antonio, Texas

Group Exhibitions

2010 - Coastlines:  Images of Land and Sea Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2008 - Mini-Retrospective "Then and Now", Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
2006 - All About Women Exhibition, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006 - New Paintings and Drawings Exhibition, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1978 - Cityscape, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1971 - Artists of the Southeast and Texas Biennial, Delgado Museum, New Orleans
1970 - 11th Midwest Biennial, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1969 - 14th Annual National Sun Carnival Exhibition, El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, Texas
1969 - Past Jurors Invitational, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1969 - Reese Museum Invitational Exhibition, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
1964-1969 Eight State Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1956,1959-1964, 1966, 1968 - Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
1959,1964,1968-1970 - Annual Invitational Painting Exhibition, Longview Art League, Longview, Texas
1965-1968 - Annual Tyler National Exhibition, Tyler Art League, Tyler, Texas
1964,1966-1967 - Mid-year Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1964 - Opening Exhibition, Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, Texas
1964 - Texas Group, The Elms Gallery, Midland, Texas
1964 - Audubon Artists Annual Exhibition, New York, New York
1964 - “Young America Realists” (by invitation), Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
1963 - American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Childe Hassam Fund Exhibition, New York, New York
1963 - National Academy Museum of Design & School of Fine Arts (formerly National Academy of Design), Annual Exhibition of American Art, New York, New York
1963 - 20th Century Realists Exhibition, San Diego Museum, San Diego, California
1963 - Artists West of the Mississippi Exhibition, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
1963 - Overseas Press Club, New York, New York
1963 - Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1962 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibition of Former Students, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1962 - 157th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1962 - M.I.T. Exhibition of Young Americans
1961 - Exhibition of Texas Artists, Newport, Rhode Island
1961 - St. John’s College, Houston, Texas
1959 - Art: USA: 59 Invitational, New York Colliseum, New York, New York
1959 - Ringling National Exhibition, Sarasota, Florida
1959 - “Made in Texas by Texans”, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
1957 - Southwestern Art Invitational Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, (circulated nationally by the American Federation of Art), Dallas, Texas