Lot 193: Zeno Hodge 3 Floral Still Life Watercolor IN Art

From the artist's portfolio: Zeno Hodge (American, b. 1896) lot of three floral still life paintings; watercolor on paper; two measure 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" and unsigned. 14 1/2" x 16 1/2" signed and dated, 1913, lower left. Living and dying in Rushville, Indiana, Hodge studied at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis ca. 1917-1918, under the instruction of Hoosier Group artists William Forsythe and Otto Stark, as well as Clifton Wheeler. Hodge was also a graduate of the Correspondence Institute of America and was married to Mary L. Veatch, a graduate of Valparaiso University and an art teacher in Knightstown, Indiana. Hodge's watercolors and oil paintings show influence from his Hoosier group instructors as well as from popular 1920s artists like Harrison Fisher.