Kenneth J. Reeve was born in Western Springs, Illinois, in 1910. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1930. From then until 1949 he was associated with advertising agencies in Chicago as an artist and art director.

In 1949, the Reeve family moved to Brown County, Indiana. Here Reeve established his studio-home and began his new career as a fine artist. In 1952 he became an artist member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, which had been established in Nashville in 1926 and had thereafter made Brown County well-known as the largest art colony in the Midwest. Reeve served four years as president of the organization and many years on its board of directors, as well as in many other...