John William Vawter

John William Vawter
John William Vawter

John William Vawter

American illustrator, 1871–1941
BiographyJohn William "Will" Vawter was born in Boone County, West Virginia and raised in Greenfield, Indiana. While in Greenfield he developed a working relationship with poet James Whitcomb Riley and eventually illustrated eleven volumes of his poems. He also worked as a landscape artist. Vawter married Mary Vawter who was also a landscape artist and poet, although they divorced in 1923. By 1908 Vawter had moved permanently to Nashville, Indiana in order to join the Brown County Art Colony. Vawter worked in a loose and impressionistic style.
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