Lot 116: Zeno Hodge Lot of 6 Watercolor Pencil Sketches

Zeno Hodge (American, b. 1896) Lot of 6 watercolor and pencil drawings. Cattle at pasture; watercolor on paper; 14 1/4" x 11"; unsigned. Lot of 3 farmyard studies/sketches; 8 3/4" x 11 3/4"; unsigned. 2 signed sketches, 1914 and 1915; 10" x 14". 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.