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ing WorksM(A-Rlt;iAn'emcliitheWein|Ha.1welireanwilyearruNc;E£hoyemidoTo Be/on Display .. ExKiibiTFeb. -10An oil copy of -Madonna of: the Sun” W-Mary;Fitch and a portrait of George' Be v an will he featured among paintings to be exhibited in Memorial home Sunday, February 10,’ fro m ■ 12 to 5; o’ clock under / aus-pices of the /Logansport .Aid..Association./ The, works to be exhibiteddate prior'/to. the.: 1900's. SSubmitted for the display by; Mrs.Carl Keller,: of 405 Seventh street,. the-, oil. copy was made ..by Mary Fitch, daughter of Commodore Le-rov Fitch,/the mail who brought, a willow from Napoleon’s grave and planted it on the lawn of the home of Huldah Coleman at 711 Market street. She '. is . a,/' great-grand-' daughter of.. Dr. • Grahanx Fitch,a half-brother oi Commodore Fitch.The' Misses . Winifred, Carrie' ajid ; Glenora Bevan, of 903 Speay street, will display the . portrait of,.George Bevan,, pioneer contractor of thiscity, which was painted in -1875 by Davis. ;; Bevan was the architect for the Memorial home, coming toLogansport in 1852 after being' born in England' and educated in Toronto. ., ,Memorial home; was the residence for. an'early banker,. Stewart Kendricks, about 1863. His first contract in- Logansport was for the Universalist church, which is now the Seventh Day Adventist churchon Fast Broadway. Other homesfor which Bevan ’was architect were tbe/E.'E. Pitman home, 901 Market stre.et; James O’Donnell home, 921 Market street; B. F. Long - home, 1004 Market street;■ YMCA (formerly Holy Angels. Academy) at Ninth and Broadway; Forrest Kniesly home. 829' Market street, and W. R. McCord residence, 804/ Spear street. dThe exhibit will be visited dur- , ing the afternoon by Wilbur Peat, 0of John Herron Art institute in In-dinna'polis, who will evaluate the v pictures. omHereVcVC!NheWdlt;tl:KIna!Cs1I)
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Logansport Pharos Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Mon, Feb 04, 1952
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