Julia O'Malley-Keyes
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArtist

Julia O'Malley-Keyes is an American painter. She is the founder of the Massachusetts fine art galleries Day Hill Fine Art and her current gallery O’Malley-Keyes Fine Art. She is best known for her work as a maritime artist and her paintings depicting Cape Cod.

Early life

Julia O’Malley-Keyes grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, spending the summers with her family on Cape Cod. She began painting as a child and sold her first painting at the age of 16.[1] She moved to Cape Cod full-time in 1969. She received early life training in painting under contemporary artist Henry Hensche[2] and Andrew Wyeth.[3]

Studios

O'Malley-Keyes founded her first studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts at the age of 22, and operated it for ten years.[2] After travelling for a few years, she founded the art gallery Day Hill Fine Art[1] in 1996.[2] She operated the gallery until 2012,[2][4] then spent five years travelling and living in Panama, where she focused on figural work, before moving back to Falmouth.[1] Her current art gallery is O’Malley-Keyes Fine Art, which she opened in 2012 in Falmouth.[1][2] She has also shown her works in group exhibitions.[5]

Work

The Cape Cod Enterprise said of O’Malley-Keyes that she is “devoted to highly detailed, action packed oil paintings,” largely of maritime scenes and themes.[5] In 2007 O'Malley-Keyes provided the painting for the Figawi Race, a competitive sailing regatta that stretches from Hyannis to Nantucket.[6] Cape Cod Art described her as a “highly regarded maritime artist whose paintings and prints are in collections around the world”.[1] She is an American Society of Marine Artists Signature Artist.[7]

Philanthropy

O’Malley-Keyes has led fine art auctions with the proceeds going to charity.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Julia O'Malley-Keyes Artist Profile: Julia O'Malley-Keyes". Cape Cod LIFE. July 6, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "O'Malley-Keyes – Fine Art". features.coastalboating.net.
  3. ↑ "J. Todd Galleries Features Exhibit of Julia O'Malley-Keyes and Marie Fischer, Premier New England Artists" (Press release). April 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ CLARK, PATRICK IAN. "Keep your hands off the art - and other gallery suggestions". capecodtimes.com.
  5. 1 2 "Gallery Features Work By Christopher Morgan and Julia O'Malley Keyes". CapeNews.net. 26 July 2019.
  6. ↑ Hoffman, Joe (May 13, 2013). Figawi Race: Hyannis to Nantucket. Arcadia Publishing. p. 110. ISBN 9781439643334 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "American Society of Marine Artists - O'Malley-Keyes, Julia". americansocietyofmarineartists.com.
  8. ↑ "Get a taste of Tuscany at annual hospital gala". capecodtimes.com.
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