Joseph P. Keiffer

Joseph Keiffer began painting at 17, while his family was living in Paris, then went on to study philosophy and art history, graduating from Brandeis college.

Following a year at Sotheby’s “Works of Art” course, he was employed by Sotheby's as a cataloguer and appraiser of paintings, and after six years there and three years at Doyle Galleries, he became president of a non-profit art foundation. In his late 30's he started painting full time, and for a living. In retrospect, he says that he learned more about the history of art from his years in the art trade than he did in college, and that he learned more about painting by looking at reality than from anything taught in art school.

Selected One-Man Exhibitions

2021 Gallery Neptune&Brown, Washington, D.C. “Wanderlust”

2020 Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine “I Still Believe in Beauty”

2018 Gallery Neptune&Brown, Washington, D.C. “Traveling Light”

2018 Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine, “Places Remembered”

2016 Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, D.C., "Perspective”

2016 Courthouse Gallery, ‘A Closer Look’

2015 Jane Roberts Fine Arts, Paris, "American Eye"