Folly Cove Panel "Goose Cove" 1952 Louise Kenyon

Item Number: 142
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Value: $500
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Description
This design is of Grace & David Murray’s home on Goose Cove that includes their two eldest boys, the old station wagon and the sailboat, Ladybug.
Folly Cove Designers, "Goose Cove", 1952 by Louise Kenyon,
Panel #2 - 33" w x 68" h
Pre-owned
Freshly hand-washed and ironed (no starch)! As is, no returns.
Three full repeats vertically, two repeats across the fabric of the pattern.
The repeat pattern is 16" w x !8" h
Linoleum block print on cotton.
Fabric is beige, ink rust red
Bio: Louise T. Kenyon, b.1906, d. 2000.
Louise T. Kenyon was born in Newton, Massachusetts to William and Mabel Tomlinson. After attending Skidmore College for one year, She left to study art and design at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. During the early 1930s she married Paul Kenyon. a reporter for the Boston Transcript.
The couple moved to Cape Ann and had two sons, Paul Jr. and Peter. Paul Kenyon found work at the Gloucester Times as a writer and soon became its editor. He knew Virginia Lee Demetrios when she worked as an illustrator at the Boston Transcript. When the Kenyans visited the first exhibition of the Folly Cove designers in 1940, Virginia persuaded Louise to join the design class.
From the Cape Ann Museum, The Folly Cove Designers, 1941 - 1969 catalog