[1] Her father was a clergyman; she moved to Chicago with her mother and sister by 1900.

[3] She made hundreds of illustrations in pastel for the Gerlach Barklow Company of Joliet, Illinois.

[4] Her work, usually sentimental images of children, animals, flowers, and young women, was featured in their calendars, jigsaw puzzles, and other publications.

[2][5][6] The Spokesman and Harness World magazine declared that "Never has Miss Kenyon painted nobler animals or more winsome womanhood" than in Gerlach Barklow's "In the Land of the Blue Grass" calendar for 1920.

[12] Before 1920 she moved to Arizona and then to Southern California[13] for her health,[9] living with her younger sister Haidee Kenyon.