Randolph LaSalle Coats

(Sept. 14, 1891-June 21, 1957). Coats was born in Richmond, Indiana, and studied art at the John Herron Art Institute where he was a student of Hoosier Group painter William Forsyth. He also enrolled at the Cincinnati Art Academy, where he studied under painter Frank Duveneck and remained to teach for four years.

Returning to Indiana, he taught at the Art Association of Richmond from 1923 to 1928. Later, he traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe and kept a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as well as in Indianapolis.

As a painter, Coats produced portraits of Indiana governors Ralph Gates and Henry Schricker, as well as assisting with a 1953 restoration of the Governors Portraits Collection. As a filmmaker, he produced the motion pictures New England Art Colonies and One Hundred Years Of Indiana Art And Artists.

Coats exhibited and received various prizes at the Hoosier Salon, Indiana State Fair, Art Association of Richmond, and the Art Association of Indianapolis juried art shows. He was a charter member and president of the Indiana Artists Club and held memberships in the Chicago Art Galleries Association, the Cincinnati Art Club, and the Duveneck Society of Painters. Coats was elected to the Indiana Academy in 1976.

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