Lot 210: Zeno Hodge Lady in Hat Watercolor 1911

From the artist's portfolio; Zeno Hodge (American, b. 1896) Lady in Large Hat; watercolor on paper; 17" x 11 1/2"; Signed, dated, 1911 lower. 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.