Elder Artist Bio

• Eugene Savage
  • Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana on March 29, 1883
  • He died on October 19, 1978
  • Savage was a teacher at Yale School of Art and Architecture for 28 years
• Georgia St. Clair Neikirk
• Georgia was born in Veedersburg Indiana on January 19, 1883
• She died on June 16, 1966
• Mary Weldon DeHaven
• Mary Weldon DeHaven was born in Covington, Indiana on September 27, 1881
• She died on September 3, 1969 in Danville, Illinois
• She attended Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods in Terre Haute, and became an artist after school.
• Isabelle Johnson Miller
• Isabelle Johnson Miller was born in 1909 and she died in 1996
• She attended Attica High School and graduated in 1927
• She went to the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis
• Ellen Erickson
  • Ellen Erickson was born in Sweden 1887
  • She immigrated to the United States in 1890
  • She graduated Covington High School in 1905
• Laurence Boord
  • Laurence Boord was from Covington, Indiana
  • He was born in 1920 and died in San Francisco, 1995
  • He served the United States in World War II
• Bertha J. Lacey
  • Bertha J. Lacey was born in 1873 in Perrysville, Indiana
  • She died in 1943
  • She attended Columbia University and Chicago Art Institute
  • She was also a school teacher
• Ethel Graham Casey
  • Ethel Graham Casey was from Covington, Indiana
  • She was born in 1885 and died in 1974
  • She had many careers that include: poet, school teacher, artist, and a milliner
• Joan and Jeanette Savage (twin nieces of Eugene Savage)
  • Joan and Jeanette Savage were both born in 1920
  • They were born in Urbana, Illinois
  • They graduated Champaign High School in 1934
  • They attended the University of Illinois
• Margaret Nave Johnson
  • Margaret Nave Johnson was born in Attica, Indiana on June 10, 1882
  • She died on October 28, 1993 in Williamsport, Indiana
  • She was married to Louis L. Johnson, who was an architect for the Fountain County Courthouse
  • Graduate of National Park Seminary in Maryland