BORN: 
Berkeley, California 
August 28, 1925 
 

STUDIED:

Occidental College 
Lukets Academy of Fine Art 
Otis Art Institute 
Sergei Bongart 
Joe Mugnaini 
Ernest Freed 
 

MEMBER:

International Institute of Arts and Letters (Life Member) 
National Society Of Arts and Letters (Santa Barbara) 
Laguna Art Association (Life Member) 
 

EXHIBITED:

Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California 
Fry Museum, Seattle, Washington 
Pioneer Museum, Stockton, California 
Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California 
Sangre de Cristo Museum, Pubelo, Colorado 
Pioneer Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado 
National Orange Show, California 
Honolulu Print Show, Honolulu, Hawaii 
California State Fair, Sacramento, California 
All California Exhibit, Laguna Beach, California 
Butler Institute, Ohio 
International Gallery, Washington, DC 
Gallery Seventy-Seven, Las Vegas, Nevada 
Long Beach City Gallery, Long Beach, California 
Signature Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona 
Orlando Gallery, Encino, California 
Loma Linda College, Loma Linda, California 
Alexander Gallery, Beverly Hills, California 
Dassin, Beverly Hills, California 
Professional Artists League, New York, New York 
Borgei Gallery, New York, New York 
Honfieur, France 
Salon des Independents, Paris, France 
Salon d'Automne, Paris, France 
Deauville, France 
Mexican-North American Culture Institute, Mexico City, Mexico 
Haden-Hayes Gallery, Broadmore Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado 
DM Gallery, L Jolla, California 
Bowater Gallery, West Los Angeles, California 
Salon del'Orangene, Versalles, France 
City of Agoura Hills Gallery, Agoura Hills, California 
Grace Art, Osaka, Japan 
 

ONE-MAN SHOWS:

Bowater Gallery, West Los Angeles, California 
Honfleur, France 
Gallery Seventy-Seven, Las Vegas, Nevada 
Mexican-North American Culture Institute, Mexico City, Mexico 
Salon des Independentes, Paris, France 
Dassin Gallery, Beverly Hills, California 
Salon d'Automne, Paris, France 
Alexander Gallery, Beverly hills, California 
Orlando Gallery, Encino, California 
Salon de l'Orangene, Versailles, France 
Deauville, France 
City of Agoura Hills Gallery, Agoura Hills, California 
 

AWARDES AND PRIZES:

Fry Museum, Seattle, Washington 
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California 
California State Fair, Sacramento, California 
All California Exhibit, Laguna Beach, California 
Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California 
All City Art Festival, Los Angeles, California 
Las Vegas Art Festival, Las Vegas, Nevada 
 

TELEVISION, ARTICLES and REPRODUCTIONS:

One of A Kind, Half-hour Cable Television Show 
City At Night, Channel Nine Television 
Revue Moderne, March 1961,1966 
Prize Winning Oil Painting, Allied Publishing 
Drawing In Space and Form, Joe Mugnaini, Reinhold Publishing 
A Search for Form, Joe Mugnaini, Van Norstrand-Reinhold Publishing 
The Hidden Elements of Drawing, Joe Mugnaini, Van Norstrand-Reinhold Publishing 
Artists of The Rockies and the Golden West, Spring 1980 
Interior Design,January 1984 
Architectural Digest, February 1985 
 

LISTED:

Who's Who in The West 
Who's Who in American Art 
Who's Who of American Women 
Two Thousand Women of Achievement 
Two Thousand Notable American Women

REPRESENTED BY:

Haden-Hayes Gallery, Broadmore Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado 
DM Gallery, La Jolla, California 
Grace Art, Japan Agent, Studio City, California 
Marion Bowater, Agent

FRANCOIS MARIE LUCET
presents

ANN KENDALL 


Artists like alchemist, project part of their psyche into inanimate
objects and thus create a mysterious animation. This is the secret soul
of things. Jean Arp once said, "There is a secret, primal meaning
slumbering beneath the world of appearances." Ann Kendall's blending
of thought, sensation, intuition, and feeling reproduce nature's
handwriting into sensory art. In her suspended symbols there exists a
polymorphous perversity. It is a translation of all of our senses into
one another and this interplay becomes a metaphor of free translation 
of nature's message. In this experience there is no antinomy, there is 
only harmony. Everything becomes a metaphor of the free translation 
of natures inscriptions. 

Literal meanings are packaged commodities for passive consumers.
The detached observer views the subject and the object as separate. The 
work of Ann Kendall offers no option of this type. Her art has a
"participation mystique". The viewer becomes self and not-self identified
in the moment of experience. It is the artist's intention that the meaning is
not in things but in between: meaning is as transitional as it is transitory.
Enigmatic form is living form and like life it has an iridescence in a symbol
there is concealment and yet revelation in continuous creation. This is the
secret soul of Ann Kendall's paintings. 



"Ann Kendall is unbelievable. The sophisticated art collectors of Paris
are buying her work like crazy. It is reminiscent of Pierre Auguste Renoir, 
and fits in beautiful with the trend toward romanticism that is sweeping 
France today". Francois Marie Lucet 



"A painter" painter -- The joyful spontaneity of the on the spot 
response typifies the Kendall Brush." 
Jeanne Goode 


Kendall displays a realism that carries on the impressionist tradition, but her
personality gives it a liberty of expression which shows up in great richness of 
color and sometimes, in profound studies of shadows. 
R. Reny Reveue Moderne 



The secret of Kendall's painting lies in it's effortless execution. The eye dances 
from one natural delight to another, losing its sense of distinctiveness in the
diaphanous light. 
Gus Baker 



Kendall brings to her work a subtle sensitivity, served by a delicate, luminous
pallet, Which plays excellently with the half-tones, with opposing lines, with masses.

Of both impressionist and expressionist tendencies, having as her main
purpose the depiction of nature, faces, flowers, landscapes, she does so with 
a sense of balance which impresses and moves us. 
R. Stevens Revue Moderne 



Kendall is an artist in love with beautiful form. Her painting pleases the viewer 
because of its fluid brushstrokes. Her richness of light and dark colors vibrate in
subtle values and rare half-tones which up the unity of her work. 

Kendall's capturing beauty on canvas reveal the never ending study and patience which confirms this painters conviction. 

In viewing Kendall's work one can see the end results are sheer magic essential 
elements in Life and Poetry. 

The attributes which attract lie within the artist whose approach to art is in the
inventiveness in form and concept and the dedication with which she has pursued an
untrodden and often scoffed at path. 

Taste and love of art can only come through understanding of the purpose and
techniques through knowledge. 
Bob Gino Phil Orlando Orlando Gallery 



Your creative eye and brush made the "tract" come alive for our guests. 
Many recognized their favorites, including Bob Strub of Santa Anita and Vernon
Underwood of Hollywood Park. 
Evie and Cliff Cherry 




PORTRAIT OF KENDALL
By A Friend

We saw our first UFO in the Autumn of '49. She landed in the back yard and asked if we
need help moving into our San Fernando Valley Cape Cod.
Kendall still is an "unidentified flying object", even to those who have watched her in orbit
over the years. Friends call her a rare find. Some neighbors refer to that wild crazy character.
Grandchildren call her GrandAnn. To takers, the once-upon-a-time heiress is a soft touch and
art collecting connoisseurs see her as a blue chip investment. All agree that Kendall is a
consummate artist.
Unperturbed by the AKA's which set her apart from the ordinary, the energetic California 
artist is listed among Who's Who of American Women Painters and has had one-women shows
from Scottsdale to Paris. Prestige galleries in New York City, Colorado Springs,Washington D.C, 
Mexico City make space for Kendall's rich, vibrant, uninhibited paintings--at one moment
impressionist, again expressionist.

"It figures, I'm a Leo-Virgo," philosophizes the born restless native Californian. 

Kendall was just as enthusiastic about her exhibit at the City Art Gallery as she would be making the coffee table pages of Architectural Digest and Interior Design--which she has--

Doesn't bother to mention "The Garden Party", Her spacious, cool oil dominates the decor
in Bel-Air Hotel's elegant Garden Room. Other Kendall's acquired by R&F Texan Carolyn Hunt
Schoelikopt, grace the foyers of the lush lagoon and swan hostelry.
Kendall has a permanent address, a warehouse-studio on the "Left Bank" of  Ventura in Studio City. Most likely, she can be reached with the thoroughbreds at Santa Anita, back side of the 
paddock, sketching stevedores on San Pedro loading docks. If it's raining try the freeway at 4 a.m. Her oils are muscled, strong statements of the high enegery world.

She paints by the moods. Her "Plains Cattle" watercolor defies framing. "Pearl" a tearful
aging dowager is a sensitive rendering in charcoal. "Dancing on the Beach" jumps out of the canvas joyously. What appears to be abandoned use of color--crimson, oranges, yellow to deep
purple--a controlled splash of her brush. Look again. It's a contempo "Don Quixote."

Kendall collects eclectically. Pre Columbian, American Indian, artifacts: pewter, Dresden, melow sideboards,dough bins of the Shaker period; a family heirloom, square grand are not still life props. They are keepsakes. Wall to wall books are framed by floor-to-rafter tapestries, velvet draperies from the Castle Hearst. Stacks of canvas hold the old studio warehouse together.

Kendall the Hostess; A superb cook, she watches the diet and vitamin balance of her "family"
pets. German Shepherds, cats, parrot, tropical fish live in peace in this jungle greenery. A child's
playpen comes in handy for emergency litter of pups or kids of the nanny kind.
In a rare moment Kendall sits back, relaxes on a gilded Louis chaise. Peels odd Gucci boots
laced with Purple Plush. She has come from feeding her horses (recently banished from the
pasture ledge along Ventura Freeway by zoning and condo cliff dwellers).
"From the look of the trash on those freeways. I'd be doing the city a favor to bring in a herd of goats", grinned the spunky individualist.
She crosses her slender dancer legs, pats a Renoir-esque curve and chuckles, "Not pasta.
It's worry", embarrassed by the serious lapse, she shrugs and blows a kiss homeward.
Ours is "and" friendship with long intervals in between. We pick up where we left off and remember the New Year's Eve when....
Revelers were watching the clock. Kendall was doing her own count-down.  Out of the pouring rain and into the living room lumbered an enormous mare in foal. Our hostess tells
her stunned guests to go ahead with their partying. She has to time her "old girl's" labor pains.

"Unusual" Not to Earth Mother Artist Kendall, an authenticated original.

WANDA HENDERSEN