"Flirting Under The Umbrella" by Kathleen Keifer - 30"x40" oil on canvas
Jim & Kathleen Keifer
Jim Keifer has been “playing” with games since childhood.
His first art projects were designing, tweaking, and improvising riffs off his favorite childhood board games. He discovered painting in high school, graduated with a fine arts degree from Notre Dame, and then embarked on a long and successful career in consumer products, toy and game design.
Jim has created games for some of the nation’s most famous game companies, and holds 15 game-related patents. But every advancement up the management ladder pushed him further away from the game-board art that had inspired him. Eventually, he combined his two loves by creating Monopoly, The Art! the new fine art series.
Kathleen Keifer
Kathleen Keifer, a second-generation internationally collected artist and Chicago native, is a modern landscape impressionist working in oil, acrylic, and pastel. Trained at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, and in private studies with prominent artists, she is inspired by light and color. She adds her painterly touches to Jim's graphic interpretations for “Monopoly, THE ART!” and “Scrabble, THE ART!”
His first art projects were designing, tweaking, and improvising riffs off his favorite childhood board games. He discovered painting in high school, graduated with a fine arts degree from Notre Dame, and then embarked on a long and successful career in consumer products, toy and game design.
Jim has created games for some of the nation’s most famous game companies, and holds 15 game-related patents. But every advancement up the management ladder pushed him further away from the game-board art that had inspired him. Eventually, he combined his two loves by creating Monopoly, The Art! the new fine art series.
Kathleen Keifer
Kathleen Keifer, a second-generation internationally collected artist and Chicago native, is a modern landscape impressionist working in oil, acrylic, and pastel. Trained at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, and in private studies with prominent artists, she is inspired by light and color. She adds her painterly touches to Jim's graphic interpretations for “Monopoly, THE ART!” and “Scrabble, THE ART!”
