SUMMER SALE Indiana Drawing CHARLES CONNER 'Adobe Ruins, Calif.'

4TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE * Price Shown is the Sale Price AUCTIONING HIGH END ARTWORK ON JUNE 27TH FROM 5pm to 9pm MST ARTISTS INCLUDE: HARRIET RANDALL LUMIS, N.C.WYETH, GERALD CASSIDY, DAVID BURLIUK, PATROCINO BARELA, EDITH BRISCOE STEVENS, ELIZABETH CATLETT, PABLITA VELARDE, OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, HUNT DIEDERICH, ANTON MAUVE, WILL HUTCHINS, MAX LUNA, NELL WALKER WARNER, HOWARD COOK, CARL BODMER, LEONARD FOUJITA, MARY DENEALE MORGAN, HERBERT DUTTON, JOSE DOLORES LOPEZ, NAVAJO RUGS, NELL DORR, EDWARD WESTON, PICASSO, DIEGO RIVERA, JOY LAVILLE, CHARLES DANA GIBSON, ALFRED STEVENS, ARTHUR B. DAVIES, MARGARET TAFOYA, NAMPEYO, CHARLES BERNINGHAUS, GISELLA LOEFFLER, ANTHONY THIEME, KATHE KOLLEWITZ, EDITH HEAD , KENNETH M CHAPMAN, LEON GASPARD , ALSON CLARK, EUGENE HIGGINS, E.I. COUSE, FREDERIC REMINGTON, HENRI CROSS, CONSTANCE MACKY, WALT KUHN, BILL SCHENCK, JOSEPH SACKS, JULES PASCIN 4TH ANNUAL SUMMER SALE NOW ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE ............. CHARLES CONNER. ............ 'ADOBE RUINS CALIFORNIA, 1889', PENCIL ON PAPER, 5" x 7"............. This is a 5" x 7" Original and Vintage pencil on paper by the Indiana painter and draftsman Charles Conner, 1852-1905. The drawing is of an adobe ruins in California, drawn when Conner was on a trip from Indiana through Texas to the West Coast. Signed at lower left in pencil. Dated Aug 11, 1889. Fine condition. Unframed. The Biography Follows: Considered as one of the most talented early Richmond artists, Charles Conner was not only an artist but also a musician. He played the coronet in the Conner Orchestra with his four older brothers, often playing solos. Self-taught, he began his art career as an industrial painter for Hoosier Drill, which later became International Harvester Company. Conner became a close friend with John Bundy and began exhibiting his works along side the Richmond group artists. A true plein-air enthusiast, he would do much of his sketching and painting outdoors and would sleep in a tent for months recording the Fountain City landscape. In 1887, he moved to California with his brother Albert, also a painter. He spent the next eight years painting the Pacific Coast before he would return to Richmond. It was during this time that his painting improved immensely. In 1904, Conner made a place for himself in the art world by having his masterpiece, "Wet Night in February" exhibited in the main hall of the St. Louis World's Fair along side works by nationally recognized artists. This same work was the sensation in the great exhibition of Indiana art shown in Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis in 1903. It was here that the work was selected for the World's Fair. But it was an art jury that then selected it to hang in the prestigious Central Pavilion for thousands of visitors to see at the World's Fair. Yet despite his talent and recognition, the most Conner ever received in his lifetime for a work was $150. This work, "The Old Swimming Hole" was purchased in part by Indianapolis philanthropist, Emil Deitz and the school children of his hometown, Fountain City who collected $50 worth of pennies to purchase the work. The painting is still owned by the Northeastern School Corporation and pictured on this website. Tragically, Charles Conner died an early death in 1905. John Bundy considered him the best painter within the Richmond Group, and one can only speculate what he might have accomplished artistically if he his life had not ended so early. As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.

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