Daniel Kendrick Furniture

Daniel Kendrick was born in Dallas on July 9, 1948. Kendrick grew up in a Conservation Lab, and his mother was a conservator. Kendrick would help around their studio cleaning palettes and brushes, and the floors or whatever a kid could do to help in exchange for art instruction. Kendrick became a professional artist and sold his first painting at 13 and everything he did thereafter. The art dealers kept his young age from the public, fearing that it would impact his brisk sales. Kendrick worked hard to develop an original style and to paint for effect, which still is the Texas Regionalist method today but in 1962, those values were overlooked by most serious academics that felt that representational art in any form should be relegated to antiquity. Kendrick never wavered and continued to be a Texas regionalist in the face of extreme academic prejudice. One junior college professor once gave him an A for technique and a D for the concept, which amounted to a C. Kendrick said, “If he could paint, maybe then he could see what I am up to." Kendrick moved in with Valton Tyler and they shared a studio in 1968. He spoke of Valton as “I learned more about drawing from Valton in ten minutes than the last five years of art school." Valton and Kendrick are still good friends to this day. Kendrick spent nine years painting the Ventana Wilderness in central California. He owned a gallery on Cannery Row in Monterey California. After graduation from the University of California, Kendrick returned to Texas in 1983. He resurrected the family conservation business and was a devoted conservator until he retired in 2004. Kendrick stopped painting in 1989 due to demands for his high-quality conservation and concerns for his family. He recently started painting again late in 2007.