In California she attended the Los Angeles College of Fine Arts, studying with Jean Mannheim.
[1] A 1903 graduate of Central Michigan University, Kendall and her sister soon thereafter moved to California, settling in the town of Redlands.
Around 1912 Marie married journalism teacher Dudley Kendall, with whom she moved to Laguna Beach in 1921.
She traveled widely throughout North America in search of subject matter.
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