Art Wanted

John Hardrick

John Wesley Hardrick (1891 - 1968) was active/lived in Indiana.  John Hardrick is known for Portrait, landscape, floral and genre painting.

The following biography is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana by Tom Davis:

John Wesley Hardrick (September 21,1891-October 18, 1968)

John Hardrick"s grandfather moved to Indianapolis around 1880 to escape the racism around his rural Kentucky farm. By 1888, John's father, Shepard Hardrick, had married Georgia Etta West and settled on South Prospect Street, where John was born in 1891.

John showed a natural talent in art very early on, drawing by the age of 6, doing watercolors at 8, and exhibiting some of his work at the age of 13 at a Negro Business League Convention here in town. One of his teachers at Harriet Beecher Stowe School was so impressed with his work that she showed it to local arts patron Herman Lieber, owner of an art supply store, who saw to it that John attended children's art classes at the John Herron School of Art.

While attending Emmerich Manual Training High School, he was a student of Otto Stark   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5814 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 293 auction lots for John Hardrick (of which 261 auction records sold and 2 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 4 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by John Hardrick as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists John Hardrick in 1 of its research Essays. John Hardrick has 16 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for John Hardrick available:    Randolph LaSalle Coats,  Marie Goth,  Varaldo Cariani,  Maude Eggemeyer,  Leota Williams Loop,  Homer Davisson,  Will Vawter,  George Joseph Mess,  Dale Bessire,  Georges La Chance,  Lucie (Lucille) Hartrath,  John Zwara,  Glenn (Glen) Cooper Henshaw,  Frederik Grue,  William J Forsyth,  Richard Buckner Gruelle,  Carl Graf,  William Edouard Scott,  Clifton Wheeler,  Otto Stark,  Edward K Williams,  Adolph Robert Shulz,  Ada Walter Shulz,  Claude Curry Bohm