Articles: Contemporary Club of Indianapolis Organized at the home of Theodore and May Wright Sewall on June 27, 1890, the Contemporary Club’s objective was to cultivate sociability and intellectual activity among a membership open to… Read More »Contemporary Club of Indianapolis Jacob Cox (Nov. 9, 1810-Jan. 2, 1892). Cox was the major figure in the early development of visual arts in Indianapolis, maintaining a studio in the city from about 1840 until his… Read More »Jacob Cox Barton Stone Hays (Apr. 5, 1826-Mar. 14, 1914). Barton Stone Hays was born in Greenville, Ohio, but settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. He traveled in the vicinity of Wingate, Covington, and Attica, making… Read More »Barton Stone Hays John H. Mahoney (June 24, 1855-Sept. 13, 1919). Born in Usk, Wales, John H. Mahoney came to Indianapolis with his parents in 1868, where he apprenticed with Carpenter Brothers Marble Works. His earliest… Read More »John H. Mahoney David Kresz Rubins (Sept. 5, 1902-Mar. 6, 1985). A native of Minneapolis, David Kresz Rubins studied at Dartmouth, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris,… Read More »David Kresz Rubins Paul Adam Wehr (May 16, 1914-Oct. 2, 1973). Born in Mount Vernon, Indiana, Wehr graduated from the Herron School Of Art with a B.F.A. in 1937. He then became an instructor in advertising… Read More »Paul Adam Wehr Adolph Gustav Wolter (Sept. 7, 1903- Oct. 15, 1980). Adolph Gustav Wolter was born in Reutlingen, Germany, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before immigrating to Minneapolis in 1922. He… Read More »Adolph Gustav Wolter Frederick Coffay Yohn (Feb. 8, 1875 -June 6, 1933). Born in Indianapolis, Yohn was a pupil of William Forsyth. His first commercial assignments were sketches for Ernest P. Bicknell’s Indianapolis Illustrated (1893), and… Read More »Frederick Coffay Yohn
Contemporary Club of Indianapolis Organized at the home of Theodore and May Wright Sewall on June 27, 1890, the Contemporary Club’s objective was to cultivate sociability and intellectual activity among a membership open to… Read More »Contemporary Club of Indianapolis
Jacob Cox (Nov. 9, 1810-Jan. 2, 1892). Cox was the major figure in the early development of visual arts in Indianapolis, maintaining a studio in the city from about 1840 until his… Read More »Jacob Cox
Barton Stone Hays (Apr. 5, 1826-Mar. 14, 1914). Barton Stone Hays was born in Greenville, Ohio, but settled in Montgomery County, Indiana. He traveled in the vicinity of Wingate, Covington, and Attica, making… Read More »Barton Stone Hays
John H. Mahoney (June 24, 1855-Sept. 13, 1919). Born in Usk, Wales, John H. Mahoney came to Indianapolis with his parents in 1868, where he apprenticed with Carpenter Brothers Marble Works. His earliest… Read More »John H. Mahoney
David Kresz Rubins (Sept. 5, 1902-Mar. 6, 1985). A native of Minneapolis, David Kresz Rubins studied at Dartmouth, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York City, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris,… Read More »David Kresz Rubins
Paul Adam Wehr (May 16, 1914-Oct. 2, 1973). Born in Mount Vernon, Indiana, Wehr graduated from the Herron School Of Art with a B.F.A. in 1937. He then became an instructor in advertising… Read More »Paul Adam Wehr
Adolph Gustav Wolter (Sept. 7, 1903- Oct. 15, 1980). Adolph Gustav Wolter was born in Reutlingen, Germany, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before immigrating to Minneapolis in 1922. He… Read More »Adolph Gustav Wolter
Frederick Coffay Yohn (Feb. 8, 1875 -June 6, 1933). Born in Indianapolis, Yohn was a pupil of William Forsyth. His first commercial assignments were sketches for Ernest P. Bicknell’s Indianapolis Illustrated (1893), and… Read More »Frederick Coffay Yohn