The Spokesman and Harness World magazine declared that "Never has Miss Kenyon painted nobler animals or more winsome womanhood" than in Gerlach Barklow's "In the Land of the Blue Grass" calendar for 1920. Her work, usually sentimental images of children, animals, flowers, and young women, was featured in their calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and other publications. ![]() She made hundreds of illustrations in pastel for the Gerlach Barklow Company of Joliet, Illinois. She trained as an artist at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her father was a clergyman she moved to Chicago with her mother and sister by 1900. ![]() Kenyon was born in Deansville, Wisconsin, the daughter of John Kenyon and Sarah Clark Kenyon.
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