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Will Vawter

Will Vawter (1871 - 1941) was active/lived in Indiana, West Virginia.  Will Vawter is known for Landscape, illustrator-genre.

A landscape painter known for his loose, Impressionist style, Will Vawter was raised in Greenfield, Indiana and began his career as an illustrator. His first assignments were for James Whitcomb Riley, a successful poet who was also a resident of Greenfield.

Vawter and his wife of two years moved to Brown County, Indiana in 1908, and for the next fifteen years, he worked on magazine illustration assignments. In 1923, he divorced and moved into a small apartment in downtown Nashville, from where he became more involved in oil painting. In 1925, he exhibited and won the prize for best winter scene at the first Hoosier Salon exhibit. He also exhibited at the Brown County Art Gallery Association.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Will Vawter


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or WorkedArt Association
  • Hoosier Salon
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Hoosier Art Salon-

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