Frank McKelvey

Background

McKelvey was born in 1895 in Belfast, the son of a painter and decorator.

Career

During his career McKelvey was considered on a par with Paul Henry and James Humbert Craig, two of the most successful Irish landscape painters of the time. He was elected as one of the first academicians of the Ulster Academy of Arts when it was founded in 1930. McKelvey died on June 30, 1974.

Achievements

• He attended the Belfast School of Art and won the "Sir Charles Brett" prize for figure drawing there in 1912.

Membership

By 1918 his work was exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and in 1921 he was elected a member of the Belfast Art Society.