Artists -- Indiana

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from family members, friends and military officers in the United States and other countries to Anthony J. Lauck; greeting and postcards and telegrams; magazine and newspaper articles; event programs; invoices; poems; exhibition catalogs; from World War II; and Japanese currency (a 10 note), ranging from 1908 to 1980 regarding art and art business, family, personal, religious, and war matters.There is also a Japanese Imperial Army war flag circa 1941...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of an article published in the February 25, 1930 Indianapolis News that was written by Blanche Stillson about two portraits of Dr. and Mrs. C. G. McLean that were given to the Herron Art Institute. The article relates Dr. McLean's background and the history of the McLean Female Institute, a seminary for women in Indianapolis that operated for about 15 years before closing shortly after the U.S. Civil War. The article...

Scope and Contents The collection is unique in that it includes his early works from his first time at the John Herron Art School (1929-1933) as well as personal journals Hopper kept listing the sales, exhibits, and loans of his artwork during a large portion of his career. The collection also includes exhibit programs and photographs of some of his later works.Oversize items include Hopper's design for a stained glass window to be placed in a library, the design of a library room, a charcoal drawing...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a two-page, handwritten letter by Indiana artist Otto Stark, written in April 1914, in response to the Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, containing autobiographical information.