The Kenneth Kendall Room is dedicated to the Hollywood artist who has immortalized Dean in dozens of paintings, drawings, bronze busts, and statues.

In 1955, James Dean went to the artist's studio and requested that Kendall do a bust of him. On the night that James Dean was killed, Mr. Kendall began the sculpture which is now the bronze bust erected at both the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and the James Dean Memorial Park in Fairmount. The original small scale model and the full scale model are on display in the Memorial Gallery along with over 50 other pieces of Dean-related art done by Kendall over the years.