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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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Facts about Will Vawter

   Publications  Book References:  13
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Will Vawter
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Artists of Brown County December 1994 Perry, Rachel Yes
13 Book References for Will Vawter
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Massillon Museum Midwestern Visions of Impressionism: 1890-1930
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1994 Letsinger-Miller, Lyn The Artists of Brown County 227 Yes
1993 Nesbit, Joanne (Editor) Those Brown County Artists The Ones Who Came; The Ones Who Stayed 235 Yes
1993 Newton, Judith/Carol Weiss A Grand Tradition: The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990 479 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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