KENDALL, William Sergeant, American painter and sculptor: b. Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y,, 20 Jan. 1869. He began as a member of the Art Students' League of New York, and subse quently was a pupil of Thomas Eakins of Philadelphia. He went to France and attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and also studied under Olivier Merson. He is equally successful in figure, portrait and landscape, and in recent years also has taken up sculpture with consider able success. His best work, however, is to be found amongst his many charming portraits of children. He has received many honors amongst which were gold medals at Saint Louis (1904) and San Francisco (1915) and member ship in the National Academy since 1905 —and in many domestic and foreign art associations— in acknowledgment of his merit as a fine color ist and powerful draftsman. One of his best pictures is (The End of the Day,' in which ten der sentiment is united with workmanship of excellence. It is now in the National Gallery,
Washington, D. C., where may also be seen 'An Interlude.' Other well-known paintings from his brush are 'Psyche' and 'The Seer,' both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 'Beatrice,) in the Academy of Fine Arts, Phil adelphia; (Narcissa,) in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C.; 'Crosslights,) in the Mu seum of Art, Detroit, Mich.; 'Intermezzo,' in the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, I. I. Since 1913 he has been director of the School of Fine Arts and William Leflingwell, professor of painting and design at Yale Uni versity, New Haven, Conn., where he makes his home. Consult Caffin, C. H., 'The Art of Ser geant Kendall) (in Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. CXVII, p. 568, New York 1908) ; Mather, F. J., jr. 'Kendall Painter of Children' (in Arts and Decoration, Vol. I, p. 15, New York 1910).