Cecil Crosley Bell

1906-1970

American (New York, New York)

Cecil Crosley Bell was born in Seattle, Washington in 1906. He studied printmaking at the Chicago Art Institute and married in 1930. Together they moved to New York, and he began studying at the Art Students League with John Sloan, Harry Wickey, and Charles Locke. In 1936 he had his first major break through as an artist occurs when the Whitney Museum of American Art purchased Ice Skaters, Central Park.