FRANCOIS MARIE LUCET
presents

ANN KENDALL


Artists like alchemist, project part of their psyche into inanimate
objects and thus create a mysterious animation. This is the secret soul
of things. Jean Arp once said, "There is a secret, primal meaning
slumbering beneath the world of appearances." Ann Kendall's blending
of thought, sensation, intitution, and feeling reproduce nature's
handwriting into sensory art. In her suspended symbols there exists a
polymorphous perversity. It is a translation of all of our senses into
one another and this interplay becomes a metaphor of free translation
of nature's message. In this experience there is no antinomy, there is
only harmony. Everything becomes a metaphor of the free translation
of natures inscriptions.

Literal meanings are packaged commodities for passive consumers.
The detached observer views the subject and the object as separate. The
work of Ann Kendall offers no option of this type. Her art has a
"participation mystique". The viewer becomes self and not-self identified
in the moment of experience. It is the artist's intention that the meaning is
not in things but inbetween: meaning is as transitional as it is transitory.
Eigmatic form is living form and like life it has an iridescence in a symbol
there is concealment and yet revelation in continuous creation. This is the
secret soul of Ann Kendall's paintings.



"Ann Kendall is unbelievable. The sophisticated art collectors of Paris
are buying her work like crazy. It is reminiscent of Pierre Auguste Renoir,
and fits in beautiful with the trend toward romanticism that is sweeping
France today". Francois Marie Lucet



"A painter" painter -- The joyful spontaneity of the on the spot
response typlifies the Kendall Brush."
Jeanne Goode


Kendall dislays a realism that carries on the impressionist tradition, but her
personality gives it a liberty of expression which shows up in great richness of
color and sometimes, in profound studies of shadows.
R. Reny Reveue Moderne



The secret of Kendall's painting lies in it's effortless excution. The eye dances
from one natural delight to another, losing its sense of distinctiveness in the
diaphanous light.
Gus Baker



Kendall brings to her work a subtle sensitivity, served by a delicate, luminous
pallet, Which plays excellently with the half-tones, with opposing lines, with masses.

Of both impressionist and expressionist tendencies, having as her main
purpose the depiction of nature, faces, flowers, landscapes, she does so with
a sense of balance which impresses and moves us.
R. Stevens Revue Moderne



Kendall is an artist in love with beautiful form. Her painting pleases the viewer
becauses of its fluid brushstrokes. Her richness of light and dark colors vibrate in
subtlevalues and rare half-tones which up the unity of her work.

Kendall's capturing beauty on canvas reveal the never ending study and patience which confirms this painters conviction.

In viewing Kendall's work one can see the end results are sheer magic essential
elements in Life and Poetry.

The attributes which attract lie within the artist whose approch to art is in the
inventiveness in form and concept and the dedication with which she has pursued an
untrodden and often scoffed at path.

Taste and love of art can only come through understanding of the purpose and
techniques through knowledge.
Bob Gino Phil Orlando Orlando Gallery



Your creative eye and brush made the " tract" come alive for our guests.
Many recognized their favorites, including Bob Strub of Santia Anita and Vernon
Underwood of Hollywood Park.
Evie and Cliff Cherry




PORTRAIT OF KENDALL
By A Friend

We saw our first UFO in the Autumn od '49. She landed in the back yard and asked if we
need help moving into our San Fernando Valley Cape Cod.
Kendall still is an "unindentified flying object", even to those who have watched her in orbit
over the years. Friends call her a rare find. Some neighbors refer to that wild crazy character.
Grandchildren call her GrandAnn. To takers, the once-upon-a-time heiress is a soft touch and
art collecting connoisseurs see her as a blue chip investment. All agree that Kendall is a
consummate artist.
Unpreterbed by the AKA's which set her apart from the ordinary, the energetic California
artist is listed among Who's Who of American Women Painters and has had one-women shows
from Scotsdale to Paris. Prestige galleries in New York City, Colorado Springs,Washington D.C,
Mexico City make space for Kendall's rich, vibrant, uninhibited paintings--at one moment
impressionist, again expressionist.

"It figures, I'm a Leo-Virgo," philosophizes the born restless native Californian.

Kendall was just as enthusiasitic about her exhibit at the City Art Gallery as she would be making the coffee table pages of Architectural Digest and Interior Design--which she has--

Doesn't bother to mention "The Garden Party", Her spacious, cool oil dominates the decor
in Bel-Air Hotel's elegant Garden Room. Other Kendalls aquired by R&F Texan Carolyn Hunt
Schoelikopt, grace the foyers of the lush lagoon and swan hostelry.
Kendall has a perment address, a warehouse-studio on the "Left Bank" of Ventura in Studio City. Most likely, she can be reached with the thoughbreds at Santa Anita, back side of the
paddock, sketching stevedores on San Pedro loading docks. If it's raining try the freeway at 4 a.m. Her oils are muscled, strong statements of the high enegery world.

She paints by the moods. Her "Plains Cattle" watercolor defies framing. "Pearl" a tearful
aging dowager is a sensitive rendering in charcoal. "Dancing on the Beach" jumps out of the canvas joyously. What appears to be abondoned use of color--crimson, oranges, yellow to deep
purple--a controlied splash of her brush. Look again. It's a contempo "Don Quixote."

Kendall collects eclectically. Pre Columbian, American Indian, artifacts: pewter, Dresden, melow sideboards,dough bins of the Shaker period; a family heirloom, square grand are not still life props. They are keepsakes. Wall to wall books are framed by floor-to-rafter tapestries, velvet draperies from the Castle Hearst. Stacks of canvas hold the old studio warehouse together.

Kendall the Hostess; A superb cook, she watches the diet and vitamin balance of her "family"
pets. German Shepherds, cats, parrot, tropical fish live in peace in this jungle greenery. A child's
playpen comes in handy for emergency litter of pups or kids of the nanny kind.
In a rare moment Kendall sits back, relaxes on a gilded Louis chaise. Peels odd Gucci boots
laced with Purple Plush. She has come from feeding her horses (recently banished from the
pasture ledge along Ventura Freeway by zoning and condo cliff dwellers).
"From the look of the trash on those freeways. I'd be doing the city a favor to bring in a herd of goats", grinned the spunky individualist.
She crosses her slender dancer leges, pats a Renoir-esque curve and chuckles, "Not pasta.
It's worry", embarrased by the serious lapse, she shrugs and blows a kiss homeward.
Ours is "and" friendsip with long intervals in between. We pck up where we left off and remember the New Year's Eve when....
Revelers were watching the clock. Kendall was doing her own count-down . Out of the pouring rain and into the living room lumbered an enormous mare in foal. Our hostess tells
her stunned guests to go ahead with their partying. She has to time her "old girl's" labor pains.

"Unusual" Not to Earth Mother Artist Kendall, an authenticated orginal.

WANDA HENDERSEN