Draft:Edward Carey Kenney
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Comment: There is nothing that I am able to see that persuades me that ECK is notable. The external links need to become citations. However, Wordpress and find a grave to not qualify as reliable sources. Good start, more work to do 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 18:09, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
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Edward Carey Kenney new article content ... Edward Carey Kenney (3 August 1914 - 26 July 2012) was a Baltimore artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The third child of Francis Louis Kenney and Ann Alphonse Carey, he moved to Baltimore with his family to finish high School at Calvert Hall. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated with a Fine Arts Degree in 1938 as a portrait painter. He opened a studio on Franklin Street in Baltimore where he taught adult classes in art as well as honing his personal skills as an artist.
In 1941 he was drafted and reported to Fort Meade as a private assigned to the 29th Division, 116th Infantry Regiment, Company B. His drawings of camp life were featured in a Baltimore Evening Sun article in July 7, 1941 and again in November. That year he also illustrated a book, “Khaki is More Than a Color,” by Sgt. M. E. Marsden which received favorable reviews from Eleanor Roosevelt.
He was promoted to Corporal and sent to Officer Candidate School Class of 31 in 1942 where he graduated as a First Lieutenant before shipping overseas to the Italian Theater in 1944. He entered combat at the
After the war he accepted a commission in the United States Army Reserve to further his service to country. During his summer months he attended Army Reserve Training. He retired from the army (USAR) in 1974 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (1946-1974).
Upon returning home from Italy in 1946 he continued his art studies with Jerry Farnsworth and Robert Brackman. While teaching at the Maryland Institute he applied for and was accepted to a teaching position at McDonogh School.
From 1947 to his retirement in 1980 Edward Carey Kenney was the head of the Art Department at McDonogh School. His portraits of school Alumni and Teachers hang throughout the campus. He coached the rifle and tennis teams and ran the Cleveland Gallery located beside his classroom below the Edward's Gym. Many of his watercolors depict the changing seasons of the McDonogh Campus and surrounding woods.
He illustrated the books, “The Ghost of Spirit River,” by Jeanne Dixon and “Forbidden Frontier,” by Christie Harris. He was President of the Baltimore Water Color Club, and Taught at the Walters Art Gallery as well as the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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https://www.eisenhowerfoundation.net/FormCenter/CustomView/48?keyword=Kenney
https://bobkenneyinspection.wordpress.com/2017/06/18/happy-fathers-day/
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=102528314
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-09-21/news/0809190105_1_art-school-pastoral-scenes-fields
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=500049
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-carey-kenney-20120730-story.html
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc1500/sc1545/apc_website/apcportraits_funk.html
https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc5500/sc5590/html/kenney.html