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Charles Freemont Conner

Birth: 1857 Death:  1905 Married:  Known For: Landscapes Associations: Awards: Facts John Bundy and others consider Charles to be the best painter in the Richmond Group Was also a musician playing the coronet with his four older brothers in their own orchestra Self-taught and worked as an industrial painter at Hoosier Drill, later the name was changed to International Harvester Loved Plein-air painting, sleeping in a tent for months capturing the landscape around Fountain City Made a name for himself by having “Wet Night in February” exhibited at the St Louis Worlds Fair in 1904 Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm