Keeler - Louis Bertrand Rolston
Keeler, Louis Bertrand Rolston (1882-?)
Rolston Keeler was born November, 1882, in New York City. He studied at the National Academy of Design for five years and for one season at the Chase School. He moved to Connecticut in 1928. He was one of the most prolific painters for the Connecticut WPA Federal Arts Project, creating 276 watercolors of Connecticut landscapes, 33 pencil sketches, 45 oils, and two mural panels. Keeler’s date of death is unknown.
Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; AskART; Who Was Who in American Art (1985), p. 330; Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters (1986), p. 478.
Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Louis Keeler:
| Still Life: | watercolor |
| Fairchild’s Barn: | watercolor |
| Bottle and Onions: | watercolor |
| Still Life and Drapery: | watercolor |
| Jugs and Lemons: | watercolor |
| Wine Bottle and Jug: | watercolor |
| Aged Barns: | watercolor |
| Cat and Mouse: | watercolor |
| Still Life Study: | watercolor |
| Autumn Promenade: | watercolor |
| Sunlit Roofs: | watercolor |
| The Bathing Beach: | watercolor |
| Yacht Yard: | watercolor |
| The White Schooner: | watercolor |
| Jug with Apples: | watercolor |
| Bit of Cape Ann: | watercolor |
| Net Reels Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Fishing Village, Winter: | oil |
| Fish Shed Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Farm Lane: | pencil |
| The White House: | pencil |
| Barns: | watercolor |
| A June Shower: | watercolor |
| Flickering Shadows: | watercolor |
| East Wind: | watercolor |
| Wayside Gas Station: | watercolor |
| Apple Tree-Sketch: | watercolor |
| June: | watercolor |
| In Back of the Barns: | watercolor |
| The House Lane: | watercolor |
| Summer Flowers: | watercolor |
| A Connecticut By-Way: | watercolor |
| Storm Clouds Evening: | watercolor |
| Hauled Out at Blackrock: | watercolor |
| The Wine Bottle Still Life: | watercolor |
| On the Farm: | watercolor |
| Still Life #1: | watercolor |
| Sunlight Study: | watercolor |
| Gruman’s Farm: | watercolor |
| April: | watercolor |
| Abandoned Factory: | watercolor |
| Tree Arabesque: | pencil |
| Budding Willow: | watercolor |
| Rowing Home: | watercolor |
| Early Morning: Norwalk Harbor: | watercolor |
| The Gravel Works: | watercolor |
| A Stone Culvert: | watercolor |
| Connecticut Willow: | watercolor |
| The Yachts: | watercolor |
| Snow Scene: | watercolor |
| Barnyard: | watercolor |
| Brook: | watercolor |
| The Haystack: | watercolor |
| Barnyard in Autumn: | watercolor |
| Red Barn in Winter: | watercolor |
| Snowy Backyard: | watercolor |
| Hill Pasture: | watercolor |
| Along the Docks of Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Lobster Boats Annisguam: | watercolor |
| Old Dwelling: | pencil |
| Up in the Hills: | watercolor |
| After the Snow: | watercolor |
| Head of the Valley Winter: | watercolor |
| White Fields: | watercolor |
| The Yachts: | watercolor |
| Rocks and Surf: | watercolor |
| Ice, Sleet and Snow: | watercolor |
| Village Barns in Snow: | watercolor |
| Thawing: | watercolor |
| Morning After Snow: | watercolor |
| A Winter Twilight: | watercolor |
| Topsy Turvy Farm: | watercolor |
| Grumman’s in Snow: | watercolor |
| The Open Doors: | pencil |
| The Farm Wagon: | watercolor |
| March Clouds: | watercolor |
| Barns- November: | watercolor |
| Judd’s Farm: | watercolor |
| The White Barns: | watercolor |
| Bare Trees: | watercolor |
| Across the Fields: | watercolor |
| A Brook: | watercolor |
| Fallow Land: | watercolor |
| The Pink Barn: | watercolor |
| Winter Scene: | oil |
| Still Life: | oil |
| Winter Solitude: | watercolor |
| The Red Barn: | watercolor |
| January Hills: | watercolor |
| Signs of Snow: | watercolor |
| Snow Shadows: | watercolor |
| Snow: | watercolor |
| The Back Yard- Winter: | watercolor |
| Judd’s Lane: | watercolor |
| The Snow at Rockwell’s: | watercolor |
| Backyard Winter: | watercolor |
| Last of the Snow: | watercolor |
| Hill Pasture or The Hill Farm – Winter: | watercolor |
| A Corner of the Farm: | pencil |
| Snow Laden: | watercolor |
| A Connecticut Silo: | watercolor |
| The Green Farm House: | watercolor |
| The Bull Pen: | watercolor |
| The Marsh Brook: | watercolor |
| Spring: | watercolor |
| Barn Doors: | watercolor |
| Bare Trees: | pencil |
| A Connecticut Farm: | watercolor |
| Abandoned Quarry: | watercolor |
| Grumann’s Farm: | watercolor |
| The Hayrick Evening: | watercolor |
| A Connecticut Woodshed: | watercolor |
| Sun Porch Sketch: | watercolor |
| Barn Yard, Study: | watercolor |
| Group of Buildings: | pencil |
| Bethel Farm: | watercolor |
| Stony Lane: | watercolor |
| A Sultry Day or Farm Scene: | watercolor |
| The Farm Road: | watercolor |
| Across the Fields: | watercolor |
| Afternoon Light: | watercolor |
| Haystacks: | watercolor |
| Evening Shadows: | watercolor |
| Beckett’s Farm: | sepia pencil |
| The Farm Road: | watercolor |
| The House and Tree: | watercolor |
| October: | watercolor |
| The Swollen Stream: | watercolor |
| Woodland Clearing: | watercolor |
| Woodland Clearing 2: | watercolor |
| November Hillside: | watercolor |
| Study in Grays: | watercolor |
| The Dead Tree: | watercolor |
| The Dark Pool: | watercolor |
| Study of a Gravel Pit: | watercolor |
| Farm Buildings: | watercolor |
| Sweeping Evening Shadows: | watercolor |
| Storm Clouds: | sepia pencil |
| The Old Barn: | sepia pencil |
| The Silo: | pencil |
| In the Barnyard: | pencil |
| The Ravine: | watercolor |
| The White Farm House: | watercolor |
| The Cattle Shed: | watercolor |
| Winter Shadows: | watercolor |
| Beckett’s Hayricks: | watercolor |
| The Farm: | watercolor |
| Late Shadows- August: | watercolor |
| The Hayrick: | watercolor |
| The Waning Year: | watercolor |
| The Farm in Rain: | sepia pencil |
| The Farm Lane: | watercolor |
| Clouds: | watercolor |
| Farm Buildings: | watercolor |
| Boats: | pencil |
| Winter Afternoon: | watercolor |
| Benedict Home: | pencil drawing |
| Grey Day Spring: | watercolor |
| Benedict Barns- Morning Shadows: | watercolor |
| Sun and Shadow: | pencil drawing |
| Chimneys: | pencil drawing |
| Sunlight on the Old House: | pencil drawing |
| Barnyard Corner: | watercolor |
| Neighboring Farm: | oil |
| Spring- The Grey Barn: | watercolor |
| Barn Shadows: | watercolor |
| Uplands: | watercolor |
| Against the Light: | pencil drawing |
| High Noon: | oil |
| Barn Group: | pencil drawing |
| A New York Street: | oil |
| On the Farm: | pencil |
| In the Glen: | watercolor |
| Derelicts: | watercolor |
| Flower Study: | oil |
| May Benedict Home-built 1760: | pencil |
| Flower Study: | oil |
| The Ship: | oil |
| Italian Boats-Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Path on the Farm-Redding: | watercolor |
| Flowers: | oil |
| The Barn in Spring: | watercolor |
| The Garden Path: | watercolor |
| Gloucester Boats: | watercolor |
| Farm Lane: | watercolor |
| Sun & Shadow: | watercolor |
| Little Old House: | watercolor |
| Snow Scene: | oil |
| March Clouds: | watercolor |
| Backyard: | watercolor |
| Rear of an Old House: | watercolor |
| The Grey House: | watercolor |
| Barns & Silo: | watercolor |
| March Sunlight: | watercolor |
| Snow: | oil |
| Winter Meadows: | oil |
| Meadow Lane: | oil |
| Blue Day: | oil |
| Winter Road: | oil |
| Tenements: | oil |
| A Grey Barn: | watercolor |
| Snow on the Barn: | watercolor |
| Boats-Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Snow: | watercolor |
| The Little Valley: | oil |
| Next Door in Snow: | oil |
| Evening Sky: | oil |
| Snow Patches: | oil |
| Blue Shadows: | oil |
| March Meadows and Hills: | oil |
| The Little Shed: | oil |
| Barns: | pencil |
| Barns: | pencil |
| March the Brook: | watercolor |
| The Valley: | watercolor |
| An Old Timer: | watercolor |
| Snow and the Valley: | watercolor |
| End of Snow: | watercolor |
| Winter Afternoon: | watercolor |
| The Snow: | watercolor |
| The Valley: | watercolor |
| The Foothills: | watercolor |
| April at Mayhews: | oil |
| The Old Red Barn: | watercolor |
| The Lighthouse: | watercolor |
| The Weed Barns: | watercolor |
| The Clouded Sun.: | watercolor |
| Spring Grays: | watercolor |
| Spring: | watercolor |
| Wagon Wheels: | watercolor |
| The White Gate: | watercolor |
| Ferris Barns: | watercolor |
| Snow: | oil |
| Winter Meadows: | oil |
| Meadow Lane: | oil |
| Blue Day: | oil |
| Winter Road: | oil |
| Tenements: | oil |
| A Grey Barn: | watercolor |
| Snow on the Barn: | watercolor |
| Boats Gloucester: | watercolor |
| Snow: | watercolor |
| The Little Valley: | oil |
| Next door in Snow: | oil |
| Evening Sky: | oil |
| Snow Patches: | oil |
| Blue Shadows: | oil |
| March Meadows and Hills: | oil |
| The Little Shed: | oil |
| Barns: | pencil |
| Barns: | pencil |
| The White Barn: | watercolor |
| Somewhere in Connecticut: | watercolor |
| Cloudy Sundown: | watercolor |
| Last of the Snow: | watercolor |
| The Parking Lot: | watercolor |
| Summer Sunlight: | watercolor |
| Jansen’s Place: | watercolor |
| Sun and Shade: | watercolor |
| The Long Shed: | watercolor |
| The Clipper: | oil |
| Old Wagon Shed: | oil |
| The Square Rigger: | oil |
| Afternoon surf- Cape Ann: | oil |
| In the Yard: | watercolor |
| #26: | watercolor |
| The Lean To: | watercolor |
| Somewhere in Stamford: | watercolor |
| The Wheelbarrow: | watercolor |
| Barnyard Ruts: | watercolor |
| A Hill Farm: | watercolor |
| Fish Sheds and Boats: | watercolor |
| The Neighboring Farm: | oil |
| A Chardin- Still Life: | oil |
| Snowy Backyard: | watercolor |
| Ship: | oil |
| Flowers: | oil |
| Groton Citizens: | oil |
| Winthrop and the Indians: | oil |
| Connecticut Country: | watercolor |
| The Fodder Stack: | watercolor |
| The Big Tree: | watercolor |
| Weed’s Place: | watercolor |
| Sheds December: | watercolor |
| Barn Silhouette: | watercolor |
| Chilly Day: | watercolor |
| December Meadows: | watercolor |
| McKay’s Fields: | watercolor |
| The Neighbors House: | watercolor |
| Quiet Morning: | pencil |
| Sheds: | pencil |
| Black Rock- Afternoon: | oil |
| Black Rock- Morning: | oil |
| Salt Water Marsh- Norwalk: | oil |
| Still River- Danbury: | litho-pencil |
| Rocks and the Lighthouse: | watercolor |
| The Tenement: | watercolor |
| Barns at Afternoon: | watercolor |
| Drying Sails: | watercolor |
| Barns and Clouds: | watercolor |
| Italian Fishing Boats: | watercolor |
| Corner of an Old Kitchen- Night: | watercolor |
| Against the Light: | watercolor |
| Trawlers and Seine Boats: | watercolor |
| Farm Buildings: | watercolor |
| Reflections- Gloucester: | oil |
| Chill Wind: | watercolor |
| Corner of the Field: | watercolor |
| Sheds in Snow: | watercolor |
| Barns: | watercolor |
| Boats and Snow: | watercolor |
| Lifting Fog: | watercolor |
| Becalmed: | watercolor |
| Abandoned: | watercolor |
| An Old Ice Shed: | watercolor |
| Boats: | watercolor |
| Lonely House: | watercolor |
| Temperature Zero: | watercolor |