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Leo Kenney

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Leo Kenney (1925 - 2001) was active/lived in Washington, California.  Leo Kenney is known for Geometric abstraction painting.

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 Kenney, Leo (1925-2001): Painter of the Spirit of the Circle

The painter Leo Kenney, born in Spokane, came with his family to Seattle in the 1930s.  Seattle Art Museum director Dr. Richard Fuller gave him a solo show at the museum in 1949 -- when he was just 24 -- and he remains one of the youngest artists ever to have received this recognition.  He experimented with mescaline in 1962, and his artwork changed to represent the art for which he is best known: psychedelic circle paintings that he considered representations of nature.

This biography of Leo Kenney is reprinted from Deloris Tarzan Ament's Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002). Note: All unattributed quotations are from Deloris Tarzan Ament's interview with Leo Kenny on February 17, 1999.

Painter as Prodigy
While most other Northwest artists were relatively mature before their work was recognized, Leo Kenney was a prodigy.&nbs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 25766 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Leo Kenney available:    Richard Gilkey,  Guy Irving Anderson,  George Tsutakawa,  Kenneth Callahan,  ZZ Wei,  Paul Horiuchi,  James W Washington Jr,  Robert Sperry,  Fay Chong,  Paul Havas,  Neil Meitzler,  William Cumming,  Frank Okada,  Ambrose McCarthy Patterson,  William Ivey,  Virginia Banks,  Elizabeth Warhanik,  Jacob Elshin,  Morris Graves,  Helmi Juvonen,  Carl Morris,  Kathleen Parks Adkison,  Wesley Wehr,  Alden C Mason



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8 Book References for Leo Kenney
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Ament, Deloris Tarzan Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art 388 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1984 Cumming, William Sketchbook, A Memoir of the 30's and the Northwest School 239 No
1978 Cowles, Charles (others) Northwest Traditions
(Exhibition catalog)		 105 Yes
1974 National Collection/Fine Arts Art of the Pacific Northwest From the 1930s to the Present
(Exhibition catalog)		 141 No
1968 Portland Art Museum The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
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