Marie B. (Boening) Kendall (1885-1953) (Redlands/Long Beach)
Active in Morro Bay before 1934
“Isn’t it funny how different types of people gather in different communities? Artists seem to prefer Laguna and Sierra Madre… But there’s at least one artist in Long Beach… She is Marie B. Kendall, who paints everything from New England woods in autumn to the California desert in verbena season. She runs a gas station in Long Beach in addition to turning out pictures that are so good they have been featured in exhibition at the Ebell Club of Long Beach.
Artist Kendall pines for the ‘good old days’ when artists had more time for fun and hadn’t become such good businessmen, although she admits it’s pretty nice that Jimmy Swinnerton is doing billboards for her kind of gas…” LAT, Feb. 14, 1941, p. 20; “Art Salon Tea Slated. Marie B. Kendall, Long Beach artist, has invited friends and art lovers to an art salon-tea, Tuesday at 279 Via Linda Vista, Hollywood Riviera. Her paintings will be exhibited during the afternoon.” per LAT, Feb. 22, 1948, p. C 10.
“Marie Kendall, Ex-Teacher of Art Here, Dies,” Long Beach Independent, July 7, 1953, p. 4, and article adds, “She also had maintained studios in Laguna Beach and San Francisco during her long and prolific career as an artist. Known chiefly for her desert scenes, Mrs. Kendall also painted many pictures of the High Sierra and seascapes…. She belonged to the Painters of the West, California Art Club, West Coast Art Club and the Laguna Art Club as well as others. Mrs. Kendall studied under such famed artists as the late William Chase and Jean Mannheim. Born in Mt. Morris, N. Y., she spent most of her life in Michigan before moving to Redlands, Calif. She was a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Normal School in Michigan.”
Source: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, MORRO BAY (including LOS OSOS, BAYWOOD PARK and CAYUCOS) ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE 1960 (Publications in [Southern] California Art, vol. 13, no. I), Los Angeles: Dustin Publications, 2016.
Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store
Painter. Born in Mt Morris, NY on Aug. 16, 1885. Marie Boening graduated from Central Michigan University in 1903 and soon moved to Redlands, CA. There she taught in the public schools and wed Dudley Kendall about 1912. She attended the summer classes of Wm M. Chase in Carmel (1914) and studied privately with Jean Mannheim while at the Los Angeles College of Fine Arts. In 1921 she and her husband moved to Long Beach where they both taught while spending summers in Laguna Beach. Primarily a landscape painter, she made sketching trips to the southern California desert and to the Canadian Rockies. Her work appeared on covers of Literary Digest and Touring Topics. She died in Torrance, CA on July 6, 1953. Member: Calif. Art Club; West Coast Arts;Laguna Beach AA; Nat'l Assn of Women Painters & Sculptors; Women Painters of the West. Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1917-18; Calif. Liberty Fair, 1918; Norse Club (LA), 1923 (solo); Long Beach AA, 1926 (prize); Holt Galleries (NYC), 1929 (solo); Mission Inn (Riverside), 1929 (solo); Friday Morning Club (LA), 1929 (solo); Century of Progress Expo (Chicago), 1933. In: Virginia Hotel (Long Beach); Polytechnic High School (Long Beach); Hollywood Riviera Club (Redondo); Seaside (CA) Hospital; Beaumont (CA) Womens Club; Ebell Club (LA); Teachers College (Mt Pleasant, Ml). AAA 1917-33; SCA; Touring Topics, Aug. 1929; AAW; KOV; WWAA 1936-41; Long Beach Press Telegram, 7-7-1953 (obit).