Les and Theo Kenyon Original Art and Estate Sale

Estate Sale Selling the Estate of Theo Jean and Les Kenyon and Paintings by Camilla Kenyon

This is the final sale of the estate of Les and Theo Jean Kenyon of East Peoria. Les, was a noted architect, local historian, preservationist, and artist, and his wife Theo Jean Kenyon, was a long-time feature writer, reporter, and art critic with the Peoria Journal Star with the Journal Star since 1944.

Les and Theo Jean Kenyon loved their community and supported it through their support of local arts, and historic preservation efforts. The Peoria community is better today because of their contributions and efforts to preserve the past and build for the future.

This sale features over 70 framed pen and ink drawings by Les (Leslie) Kenyon. They range from the 1940's when Les served in the Army, and then developed into architectural line drawings of places he and Theo would visit. They traveled throughout Europe, with a lot of time in Paris and England, and throughout the United States. Les loved to sketch and his work is very well done. Early pieces have a variety of frames, but many are nicely matted and framed in newer appropriate frames.

Subjects include the following: Hennepin courthouse, LaSalle courthouse, Scott County courthouse, numerous bridges, Paris scenes, train stations, structures in Lewistown, Chillicothe, Belleville, Tiskilwa, Peoria, Mt. Washington NH, Maine, Sweden, Mattson, covered bridges, train bridges, Ead's Bridge, Lacon Bridge, Peoria County Courthouse, and many more.

These are original art, framed, and ready to be cleaned and appreciated. They vary in size.

The estate also includes a collection of 30 original oil painting by Camilla Kenyon, Les Kenyon's mother. Camilla was a prolific painter working in oils, having schooled at the Chicago Art Institute Summer school in Saugatuck Michigan in the 1940's. Her work is a variety of still life and outdoor landscape. One of her favorite outdoor subjects was the Illinois River Valley. A number of the frames she used look like Hedley Waycott frames although I cannot say for sure.

The oil paintings need a good cleaning and restoration after being stored away for decades. They are a variety of sizes.

These items are all priced to sell and are only available Thursday August 11th from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

The following remaining items from the first sale will be half off (50% of original price).

Asian carved tables, Asian dining tables and 3 upholstered dining chairs, small, Asian folding screen, large cloisonne vase, lamps, wicker chairs, toy rifles, Model Doepke toy hauler, 2 1960's Murray tricycles, bench hand grinders, hand saws, writing desk, old wood office chair, small walnut color bookcase, cool iron and glass Victorian garden table, tall hall mirror, gold mirror, framed prints, coffee table books, fiction and non-fiction books, Illinois and Peoria history books, Cosco card table and chairs, 4 aluminum Goodform chairs, plaster Venus statue, concrete little boy with books statue, Sansui 350 r receiver, heavily carved walnut chest, life-size stuffed Melissa and Doug dog, LC Smith Corona typewriter, Ansonia walnut shelf clock, Magna Lite roaster, bench with cast brass base with birds, upholstered bench with cast iron legs, wood boxes