Henry Rodman Kenyon papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kenyon, Henry Rodman, 1861-1926
label: Names
content: Dow, Arthur W. (Arthur Wesley), 1857-1922
label: Names
content: Selden, Charles A., 1870-1949
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich
label: Topic
content: Artists' studios -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Artists' preparatory studies
label: Topic
content: Impressionism (Art)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1992 by Childs Gallery. The gallery owns paintings by Kenyon and received the papers from his heirs.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kenyon, Henry Rodman, 1861-1926
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Ipswich, Mass. Studied painting in Paris throughout the 1880s where he met teacher and painter Arthur Wesley Dow. Settled in Ipswich, Mass. where Dow lived and ran a summer art school.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear feet ((on 2 microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883-1958
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kenyhenr
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Sketchbooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4595-4596 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketchbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lender, Childs Gallery, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical data, letters, notes and writings, numerous sketches, sketchbooks, photographs, and printed material.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are: letters from galleries, purchasers of work, museums, friends and colleagues, among them Arthur Wesley Dow and Charles Selden; posthumous correspondence from Mrs. Kenyon and her executrix; miscellaneous notes; bills; a poem, "Scituate Wharves"; an American Federation of Arts exhibition list; a quote about Dow, 1923; and handwritten information about Kenyon's funeral. Also numerous sketches, some annotated, received in random order. Some are dated; others, drawn on envelopes or scraps of paper, were given dates based on postmarks or dated printed material. Undated sketches have been organized into the following categories: animals, boats, houses, nudes and faces, outdoor scenes, and miscellaneous subjects.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Also included are 18 sketchbooks containing sketches of Etaples and Concarneau (France), Holland, Venice, Pont Aven (Brittany), Ipswich, Mass., and unidentified locations; photographs of Kenyon, his wife and others, his Paris studio, a 1926 exhibition of his work, his Ipswich house, and a painting, inscribed by Robert W. Wickenden; exhibition catalogs, 1913-1926; a menu; a picture postcard of Kenyon's summer house in Wilton, N.H.; an admission card for varnishing day at the National Academy of Design; and clippings about an exhibition and Kenyon's burial.