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Cecil F Head

Cecil F. Head (1906 - 1995) was active/lived in Indiana.  Cecil Head is known for Still life, farm and steel workers, rural scene painting.

Following is an excerpt from the obituary of the Franklin County Daily Journal in Indiana

Cecil Head who graduated from John Herron Art Institute in 1929, was one of the Market Street artists, along with Floyd Hopper and William Kaeser in the early 1930s.

The three artists painted in a similar style depicting Americans hard at work. His still lifes depicted farm workers and steel workers.

“He was one of the finest artists in the state,” said Pam Hicks, who served with Head on the board of the Southside Art League. “He was highly regarded as an artist.”

Perhaps his best-known painting, Indiana Potato Planters” a 5-foot-by-5-foot oil on canvas painted in 1936, is part of the Franklin-Johnson County Public Library archives, and is on display in the library’s Historical Room. The library also has his oil on canvas Hunter on the Bridge, 1935, and a framed silk screen.,Historical Celebration of Johnson County Sesquicentennial 1973.
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