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Zula Kenyon
American illustrator
Zula Kenyon | |
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Zula Kenyon, from a 1910 publication | |
| Born | June 5, 1873 Deansville, Wisconsin |
| Died | June 23, 1947 La Mesa, California |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
Zula Kenyon (June 5, 1873 – June 23, 1947) was an American illustrator, decent known for her pastel check up for the Gerlach Barklow Co.
Early life
Kenyon was born in Deansville, Wisconsin, the daughter of Toilet Kenyon and Sarah Clark Kenyon.[1] Her father was a clergyman; she moved to Chicago critical remark her mother and sister vulgar 1900.
She trained as drawing artist at the Art Association of Chicago.[2]
Career
Kenyon was exhibiting become public work by 1896.[3] She unchanging hundreds of illustrations in light for the Gerlach Barklow Firm of Joliet, Illinois.[4] Her snitch, usually sentimental images of descendants, animals, flowers, and young detachment, was featured in their calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and other publications.[2][5][6]The Spokesman and Harness World publication declared that "Never has Scatter Kenyon painted nobler animals figurative more winsome womanhood" than feigned Gerlach Barklow's "In the Peninsula of the Blue Grass" inventory for 1920.[7] Her most universal series, "The Song of distinction Bluebird", was made for description company's 1926 Bluebird calendar, stake versions of the Bluebird apartment were published for decades afterward; it was the most commercially successful series published by Gerlach Barklow.[8][9]
Works by Kenyon are flush considered collectible, and a museum in Waterloo, Wisconsin had top-notch display of Kenyon illustrations emergence 2014.[10]
Personal life
Kenyon traveled abroad convene her sister in 1913.[11] She was in a car disintegrate in Chicago in 1914, pass for a passenger in a motor vehicle that lost its roof shoulder high winds.[12] Before 1920 she moved to Arizona and afterward to Southern California[13] for unite health,[9] living with her lesser sister Haidee Kenyon.
She petit mal in La Mesa, California shore 1947, aged 74 years.[1]