Lot 117: Zeno Hodge Portrait of a Man Charcoal on Paper

Zeno Hodge (American, b. 1896) Portrait of a Man; charcoal on paper; 24" x 18"; signed lower left. "Riley-an art student" written verso. 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.