Gladys Kelley Fitch

Gladys L. Kelley Fitch (Fitsch) (August 29, 1896 – January 17, 1986) was an American painter and art teacher. She lived in Lyme, Connecticut and was a member of the Old Lyme art colony.

Early life and education Gladys Kelley was born in Patchogue, New York and lived in Rockville Centre and Hempstead, the daughter of William Bennett Kelley and Julia Eisele Kelley. Her father was a doctor; her brother Chester Leon Kelley was a novelist and advertising executive. She won several award at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, and her paintings were considered "the most striking work" in the school's exhibition in May 1919. While she was a student she also won a cover design contest in The Touchstone magazine; her cover was published in May 1919. thumb Career Fitsch was head of the art department at the Kimberley School in Montclair, New Jersey, and taught at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. She was a life member of the Art Students League of New York. In 1940, she exhibited her landscapes in watercolors, pastels and oils at the Morton Galleries in New York City, and one of her watercolor paintings was purchased by the Federal Works Agency for a Marine hospital in Carville, Louisiana. thumb Personal life In 1923, Gladys Kelley married fellow artist Eugene Camille Fitsch, She signed her paintings "Gladys Kelley Fitsch". She died in 1986, at the age of 89, in Waterbury, Connecticut.

Publications Fitch, Gladys Kelley. Creative art expression and appreciation : a method of developing student ability ... a way to bridge the interval between student and professional approach (1937)