Birth: 10-13-1888 Utica, New York Death: 6-23-1964, Bloomington, IN. Married: Sally Known For: landscape featuring farm life Associations: Hoosier Salon, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Charter Member of the Brown County Art Guild Awards: Facts Inspired at an early age when visiting the art museum at the Saint Louis Worlds fair in 1904 Dropped out of school at age 15 taking a job sailing on a schooner Entered the St. Louis School of Fine Art at 21 but never finish and was mainly self-taught Opened a photography studio in Vincennes IN. living there for nine years During the depression years, Jack had to exchange some of his paintings for groceries Lived in a cabin on Cheerful Hill in Brown County Jack visited Brown County regularly during the late 1920s and moved there permanently around 1931 Popular among the men in the area due to his weekly poker games at his cabin that included smoking cigars and drinking whiskey He painted to get by, but once told
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