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Wheeler, Clifton Self Portrait, No Date
Information Clifton Wheeler was born in Hadley, in Hendricks County, Indiana. When he was in the fourth grade, his family bought a flourmill at Mooresville and moved there. In a 1945 letter to the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, he wrote, “One of my first new friends introduced me to James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, […]
Wheeler, Clifton Snow Covered Banks, No Date
Information Clifton Wheeler was born in Hadley, in Hendricks County, Indiana. When he was in the fourth grade, his family bought a flourmill at Mooresville and moved there. In a 1945 letter to the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, he wrote, “One of my first new friends introduced me to James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, […]
Hardrick, John Wesley Little Brown Girl, 1927
Information John Wesley Hardrick lived and worked his entire life in Indianapolis. He began drawing as a child and first exhibited his works as a teenager, at the Negro Business League Convention in 1904. His creative talent was encouraged by a teacher at Harriet Beecher Stowe School, who introduced him to Herman Lieber, a German […]