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Evelynne Mess Daily

Birth:  January 8, 1903 Death:  2003 Married: George Jo Mess, Edward R Daily Known For: Printmaking, Landscapes Associations: Indiana Artist Club, Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, The Society of Arts and Letters, The Indiana Society Of Print Making, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Hoosier Salon, Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France Awards: Facts Studied at the John Herron Art Institute, Butler University in Indianapolis, School of Painting in the Adirondacks and Printmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago Taught her husband George printmaking, he originally started out as a painter Evelynne founded the Society of Printmakers in 1934 Moved to Chicago from Indianapolis in 1937 where George got a job supervising art reproduction for a magazine Her husband George died in 1962 after a 20 year-long battle with cancer After his death, she moved to Brown County to the land they purchased in 1942 and started the Arts and Crafts summer school located at Ox-Bow