Leroy Chester Keister timeline

Keister, Leroy (Roy) Chester[1]

BORN: January 2,  1886 Germantown,  OH[2]

DIED: December 1983 Whitehouse, TX

MARRIED: c.1910 Mabel Warren of Spokane, WA[3]; Marguerite Keister, second wife

TRAINING

1909-1913 Art Institute of Chicago with Walter M. Clute, Antonin Sterba

1919-1920 Art Institute of Chicago, evenings, Wellington J. Reynolds, Charles Schroeder

1920 Privately, WellingtonJ. Reynolds

[1]Some information courtesy of his grand niece, Maribelle Ankeney Flischel. Most information from pamphlet entitled Roy Keister: Noted Portrait Painter, privately published, c.1960. See also “Biographical Data on Artist,” Handwritten by Roy C. Keister, Ryerson Library Archives, Art Institute of Chicago, 1946.

[2]He was born on a farm near Germantown. “Roy C. Keister Commercial Artist,” The Palette & Chisel, Vol. VI, March, No. 3, 1929, p.1.

[3]They were married in Crown Point,  IN. She was active in the Edgebrook Woman’s Club in Chicago. “Edgebrook Woman’s Club,” Chicago Tribune, 1/7/1940, p.NW3, and 5/10/1942, p.NW3.