Biografie von Henry Rodman KENYON (1861-1926)

Birth place: Centerville, RI

Death place: New Orleans, LA (en route to CA)

Addresses: Ipswich, MA (1921-26)

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Moses Brown Sch., Providence, RI; RISD; Acad. Julian, Paris, 1882-88; Delance in Paris

Exhibited: NAD; Paris Salon, 1889; Boston AC, 1891; Florence Griswold Mus. (retrospective), Old Lyme, CT, 1988 (plus 25 works at Cooley Gal.)

Member: Providence AC; North Shore AA.

Work: RISD; Providence AC; Moses Brown Sch., Prov. RI

Comments: He painted plein air Impressionist landscapes in France, Holland, and Venice, 1882-89. On a return trip from Holland in 1887, he was one of the few survivors of a shipwreck in the English Channel. In 1900, he married Caroline Savary, a portrait painter.

Sources: obit. (courtesy Childs Gal., Boston); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 361.