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 Born in Hanover, Germany, William Arnold Eyden came to the United States in
1866 with his mother, who died on the voyage. He traveled to Massillon, Ohio
to live with an uncle. After his marriage he moved to Richmond, Indiana
where he a studio at 2100 East Main. His mother was an artist and the source
of his only instruction in art.
Early in his career, he painted genre scenes but later turned to painting
landscapes almost entirely. He like many of the founders of the Richmond
Group artists favored the beech trees. He lived in Buffalo, New York for a
short time but returned to Richmond in 1904, where twelve of his landscape
paintings were on view in the window of Ellwood Morris & Co. His pupils
included Randolph Coats and his two sons, William and Walter.
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Born: 1859
Died: 1919 Preferred Media:
Painter
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Evening Item, February 20, 1904 p. 8
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Item, March 22, 1919, p. 1 obituary
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Kathleen Postle Archive, Richmond Art Museum; Oral History
from William A. Eyden, Jr. with Mrs. Ruth Mills in 1978
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Burnet, Mary Q. Art and Artists of Indiana. New
York; The Century Co., 1921.
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Newton, Judith Vale and Carol Weiss, A Grand Tradition:
The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990. Indianapolis,
Indiana: Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Inc., 1993.
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Peat, Wilbur. Pioneer Painters of Indiana.
Crawfordsville, Indiana: The Lakeside Press, 1954.
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___The Richmond School; Presented by Jay County
Arts Council and the Art Association of Richmond, September, 1985.
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