biography of William Sergeant KENDALL (1869-1938)

Birth place: Spuyten Duyvil, NY

Death place: Hot Springs, VA

Addresses: NYC; Tarrytown-on-Hudson, NY; Newport, RI; New Haven, CT; Hot Springs, VA

Profession: Painter, sculptor

Studied: ASL; Eakins in Phila.; Acad. Julian, Paris, 1888-90; …cole des Beaux-Arts; Merson in Paris.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1893-95, 1898-1919, 1929-30, 1937 (prize, 1894); NAD, 1885-1908 (7 annuals), 1927 (med.); Paris Salon, 1890-92; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (med.); SNBA, 1896; Tenn. Centenn. Expo Nashville, 1897; WMA, 1900 (prize), 1901; Paris Expo, 1900 (prize); CI, 1900 (med.); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (med., prize); SAA, 1901 (prize), 1903 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (gold); Corcoran Gal., 1907-32 (11 times); AIC, 1908 (prize), 1910 (gold), 1918 (prize); Newport AA, 1912 (innaugural); Pan.-Pacific Expo, San Fran., 1915 (gold, med.); S. Indp. A., 1917; Miss. AA, 1926 (gold); Palm Beach AC, 1934 (prize).

Member: SAA, 1898; ANA, 1901; NA, 1905; NIAL; NYWCC; Century Artists; Newport AA.

Work: PAFA; MMA; NGA; CGA; Detroit Inst. Art; RISD; Albright Art Gal., Buffalo; College Physicians & Surgeons, NYC; Peabody Inst., Johns Hopkins Univ.; Williams College; U.S. War College, Newport, RI; St. Paul's Sch., Concord, NH; Yale.

Comments: Popularly known as Sergeant Kendall. Position: founder, instr., Newport AA Sch.; dean, Yale Sch. FA, 1913-22. Married to Christine Herter.

Sources: WW38; 1912 Revisited: The 75th Anniversary Exh., 18; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 361; Falk, Exh. Record Series.