548. John Wesley Hardrick (American, 1891-1968), "Bathers", c.1930; oil/canvas, 30" x 40", unsigned, but guaranteed. A letter from the expert may be obtained. Important African-American painter from Indianapolis. Hardrick was featured in a recent exhibition, A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans, which toured the Indianapolis Art Musuem, Terra Museum, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, and the Hunter Museum, in Chattanooga. Hardrick studied at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis (1906-1914) with William Forsyth and Clifton Wheeler. He exhibited at the Tenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Indiana Artists in 1917 with fellow African-American painter, William Eduoard Scott. He shared a studio with Hale Woodruff for a brief time in the 1920s, and exhibited with him at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1927. Hardrick also exhibited at the Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Negro Art in San Diego in 1929. He was awarded grants by the Harmon Foundation and worked as a WPA muralist in 1933-34. He participated in the American Negro Exposition: Celebrating 75 Years of Negro Achievement, in Chicago (1940). This painting reveals the high level of sophistication of Hardrick's movement to modernism, and the influence of European post-impressionist painting on his work. 10,000-15,000

549. Edmund Brucker (American, b.1912), "School Boy", c.1940; oil/canvas, 20" x 16", signed. Indianapolis modernist painter. Brucker taught at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis, and was well known for his portraits. He was commissioned for portraiture by the Phillips Petroleum Company, Eli Lilly, IU Law School, and the Indiana War Memorial Commission. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 800-1200

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