Thank you Lou Holtz for Coaching Like A Champion every day!
I’m grateful for all the personal kindness you showed me, by always supporting my art. You provided us with infinite inspiration and laughs! I’m grateful as a Notre Dame fan for all of the great teams you coached. God speed to heaven Lou!
16”x 20”
Limited Edition to 100 prints on museum wrap canvas , signed Numbered and Remarked by artist
20 “x 20” x1.5”
Limited Edition of 100 on Canvas. Ready to hang.
The Dome in background hand-touched with 24k gold from dome. Signed and numbered by artist
Sadly the first edition of this painting, all signed by Lou Holtz, has sold out. This second edition features our national championship coaches with my painting of a favorite view of campus, the church and dome grotto from the lake. Hoping to add Marcus Freeman to this group soon!
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Notre Dame & Kathleen Keifer
The icons of the University of Notre Dame: the Golden Dome, the grotto, the stadium, and the gold helmets are equally as important to me as the beach icons I paint.
I am a triple legacy of Notre Dame. My grandfather, Frank O’Toole ’28, played football for Knute Rockne. My father, James O’Toole ’55, fought in the Bengal Bouts. My husband Jim Keifer and I, class of ‘85, met in an art class at Notre Dame, and were married in the log chapel.
I may be prejudiced, OK I am, but I think it’s the most beautiful college campus in the world. One of my favorite things to do is to fly in for a game- nothing like a crisp October game day to wake up the echoes and shake down the thunder!- and set up my easel in the God Quad, paint the Dome, and swap stories with other fans. Go Irish!
-Kathleen Keifer
The second edition of the book is sold out. The third edition of the book will ship in mid January, 2026
The Gold Standard is a book framed around Kathleen Keifer’s experience of visiting Notre Dame for the first time as a child in October of 1971, and how the beauty and richness of the campus and tradition inspired the artist herself. It’s a big, 11.5” x 11.5” hard cover coffee table book that contains almost 200 of Kathleen’s most popular paintings, and stories you’ve never heard about Notre Dame!
Notre Dame Assemblage Art:
Stadium Seats, Bricks and More!
Where Art Meets History and Memorabilia
Campus Originals:
One of a kind art pieces of the campus we love so much
Sports Originals:
One of a kind art pieces of notre dame sports.
go irish!
Prints Over $400
Hand Signed and Numbered limited editions
Autographed Work:
Signed by Notre Dame legends!
All Under $400:
Residence Halls:
Notre Dame Coaches & Players who sign Kathleen’s work.
Kathleen Keifer with Coach Lou Holtz
Kathleen with Coach Freeman
Kathleen Keifer with Coach Lou Holtz at Rockne Gala in Chicago
Lou holtz signing Kathleen’s artwork
Kathleen Keifer with with 1964 Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner John Huarte.
Rocky Bleier signing prints.
Kathleen with Joe Theismann at her Notre Dame art show
Honored to have college basketball legend Digger Phelps stop by my Manhattan Beach studio and sign prints!
Photo by @johnmatteraphotography
Kathleen with Bob Crable and Reggie Brooks
Lee Becton & Kathleen with stadium bench commission
Chris Zorich
Kathleen with John Huarte’s Heisman Trophy.
Kathleen Keifer with Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Lujack.
Kathleen Keifer with Notre Dame Quarterback Malik Zaire.
Kathleen with Audric Estime and Ben Morrison
Derrick Mayes signing prints in Kathleen Keifer’s art studio.
Kathleen on the panel with Lee Becton, Todd Lyght and Malik Zaire
Chris Zorich singing prints
Hannah Hidalgo and Sonia Citron with Kathleen
Manti Teo and Kathleen
Kathleen with (then) Notre Dame Coach Brian Kelly
Kathleen visits the Gug
