Grace V. Kelly

[2] An accomplished watercolorist, she was a member of the Cleveland School of artists, and served as The Plain Dealer's principal art critic from 1926 to 1949.

[3] In 1926, her writing gained the attention of Plain Dealer editor Erie C. Hopwood, who invited her to become the newspaper's art critic.

[5] Her stories on the Guelph Treasure in 1931 helped the Cleveland Museum of Art draw record crowds to view the objects.

[5] The Plain Dealer's editorial page wrote that her colleagues would "long cherish the memory of an artist and writer who enriched their lives with Irish wit and points of view that opened up picturesque vistas that otherwise would have been missed.

[3] In 1998 and 1999, her work was shown along others in an exhibition organized by the Cleveland Artists Foundation and titled A Brush With Light: Watercolor Painters of Northeast Ohio.