Fine Art Auction Held on April 1st, 2017
There was a good selection of art from well know Indiana and Hoosier Group artists for sale at the April 1st, 2017 Jackson art auction in Indianapolis. For sale was a 30" x 36" oil painting by well know African American artist John Wesley Hardrick (1891 to 1968). Born on September 21st, 1891, in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Manual High School and studied under Otto Stark as a young boy. He attended the Herron School of Art and studied under William Forsyth until 1918. After opening a shared studio in 1924 on Indiana Avenue with Hale Woodruff, he continued to work in the family trucking business to make ends meet. In 1927 he received second place at the Art Institue of Chicago's exhibition of African American artists. In 1934 he was commissioned to paint a mural for Crispus Attucks High School by the WPA. John continued to paint throughout his life and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon in 1929, 1931, 1934. The painting reached a final price of $2,000.
Estimated between $1,000 and $2,000, a painting by Carl Woolsey (1902 to 1965) more than doubled the estimate at $4,250. Carl moved to Indianapolis, In. with his family in 1921 from Danville, Illinois, and back to Indianapolis in 1925 and subsequently moved to Long Beach, California, in 1922, where he received art instruction from Henry Richter. In 1925 Carl moved with his father back to Indianapolis but eventually moved his wife and two kids to Taos New Mexico in 1927 to study under Walter Ufer, one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists. Once under Ufer's instruction, he grew as an artist and was juried into the 1927 Hoosier Salon and the National Academy Design in 1928. Eventually, Carl's other two brothers Jean and Wood moved to Taos and shared a studio. Carl and Wood were very successful in Taos selling the majority of the paintings they created while continue to enter exhibitions across the country. During the Depression, Carl followed his father to Pennsylvania, where he lived the remainder of his life. The Oil painting measure 14" X 12", signed lower left, and was titled sunlit hill.
The highest sale of the day was at $19,000 for a 30" by 44" T. C. Steele Oil on canvas that was signed lower right and titled "Frosty Morning." The second-highest sale went to an 18" by 20" double-sided oil on board by artist Ada Walter Shulz for $12,500.
April 1st, 2017 summary of art auction prices
Carl R. Krafft, 16"x20", Oil on Canvas, SLR 1935 titled "Back from the Fields" sold for $1,500
Marie Goth, 24"x20", Oil on Canvas, SLR, titled "Roses and Daises" sold for $2,200
L. O. Griffith, 24"x30", Oil on Canvas, SLR, titled "May Morning" sold for $2,100
Dale Bessire, 20"x24", Oil on Canvas, SLR, untitled sold for $1,200
Wood Woolsey, 20:x16", Oil on Canvas, SLR, titled "Hill Man",sold for $2,000
John Elwood Bundy, 17"x20", Gouache, SLR, titled Clear Creek, sold for $2,000
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