HENRY RODMAN KENYON. Kenyon, born in Centerville, Rhode Island on 29 March 1861, never sought self-promotion, therefore he was overshadowed by his contemporaries. The son of Quakers, Charles Dake... Read full biography
HENRY RODMAN KENYON. Kenyon, born in Centerville, Rhode Island on 29 March 1861, never sought self-promotion, therefore he was overshadowed by his contemporaries. The son of Quakers, Charles Dake Kenyon and Mary Rodman, Henry began studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1879. Three years... Read full biography
HENRY RODMAN KENYON. Kenyon, born in Centerville, Rhode Island on 29 March 1861, never sought self-promotion, therefore he was overshadowed by his contemporaries. The son of Quakers, Charles Dake Kenyon and Mary Rodman, Henry began studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1879. Three years later we find him under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He remained a student through the 1880s. Toward the middle of the decade, Kenyon met Arthur Wesley Dow, who... Read full biography
HENRY RODMAN KENYON. Kenyon, born in Centerville, Rhode Island on 29 March 1861, never sought self-promotion, therefore he was overshadowed by his contemporaries. The son of Quakers, Charles Dake Kenyon and Mary Rodman, Henry began studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1879. Three years later we find him under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He remained a student through the 1880s. Toward the middle of the decade, Kenyon met Arthur Wesley Dow, who would influence him considerably. The two traveled to Pont-Aven in Brittany in 1885, one year after Arthur Hoeber and Willard Metcalf made their visit. Hoeber (1895) recalled the period around that time when Alexander and Birge Harrison, Eugene Vail,... Read full biography
HENRY RODMAN KENYON. Kenyon, born in Centerville, Rhode Island on 29 March 1861, never sought self-promotion, therefore he was overshadowed by his contemporaries. The son of Quakers, Charles Dake Kenyon and Mary Rodman, Henry began studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1879. Three years later we find him under Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. He remained a student through the 1880s. Toward the middle of the decade, Kenyon met Arthur Wesley Dow, who would influence him considerably. The two traveled to Pont-Aven in Brittany in 1885, one year after Arthur Hoeber and Willard Metcalf made their visit. Hoeber (1895) recalled the period around that time when Alexander and Birge Harrison, Eugene Vail, Walter Gay, and others were in the picturesque village. A year later (1886), Gauguin entered the scene... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (11)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Small Masterpieces: The Joy of Collecting North Shore Arts Association (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Tysver, Ted
12 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Ipswich Painters at Home and Abroad, 1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Gaskins, Stephanie; David Sellin
39 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Sellin, David / J K Ballinger
229 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index