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 Nationally known water-colorist, Edgar Forkner was born in 1867 in Richmond,
Indiana. Equally adept at painting floral still-lives and harbor scenes,
Forkner exhibited over twenty years in the Hoosier Salon Exhibition wining
numerous awards for best watercolor. He received his training at the Art
Student League in New York studying with J. Carroll Beckwith, Irving Wiles,
William Merritt Chase and Frank Vincent Dumond.
An early member of the “Richmond Group”, Forkner worked with
John Bundy
and others to help establish the Art Association of Richmond. After a few
years in Richmond, he traveled to Chicago where he taught watercolor in
Auditorium Tower studios. Later he lived in Seattle, Washington becoming
active in the Seattle art colony painting harbor scenes along the Pacific
coast.
His works are in the permanent collection of the Richmond Art Museum,
Richmond, Indiana; Seattle Art Museum and the Chicago Art Institute. His
Hoosier Salon award winner, Old Vase of Flowers, was exhibited in the 1933
Chicago World’s Fair. In appreciate of his artistic contributions, The
Seattle Art Museum, held a tribute in memory of Edgar Forkner on July 14,
1945 over the radio. Considered a pioneer painter in two art colonies, Mr.
Forkner contributed greatly to the artistic legacy and heritage of American
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Born: 1867
Died: 1945 Preferred Media:
Painter, Teacher
Additional
Information & Images:
Sources:
___A Tribute in Memory of Edgar Forkner.
Seattle Art Museum; July 14, 1945. Indianapolis Star. February 9, 1930. Forkner
Depicts Boats and Flowers Skillfully. Richmond-Item. February 18, 1930. Forkner to
Visit Relatives In Richmond. ___The Richmond School; Presented by Jay County
Arts Council and the Art Association of Richmond, September, 1985. Newton, Judith Vale and Carol Weiss, A Grand
Tradition: The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990.
Indianapolis, Indiana: Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Inc., 1993. Peat, Wilbur. Pioneer Painters of Indiana.
Crawfordsville, Indiana: The Lakeside Press, 1954.
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