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Museum: Elkhart Co. Illustrators Program
On Sat., June 3, 2017, Patrick McGuire of the Elkhart County
Historical Museum and Martha Owen of the Nappanee Museum and
Library, told of Illustrators of Elkhart County. Patrick told of T.Dart
Walker of Middlebury; J. “Ding” Darling, born in Michigan who moved
to Elkhart where his father was a pastor. He won two Pulitzer Prizes
for his political cartoons; and Ted Drake, Elkhart, iconic sports artist of
the Notre Dame Leprechaun and Chicago Bulls, who was the artist for
Kulka, Fran, and Ollie. Marsha Owen of Nappanee then told of the
Nappanee Six, 5 of whom were inspired by Nappanee art teacher
Bessie Brown. They all knew each other, and were as follows: Max
Gwin, cartoonist; Henry Maust, who did ad illustrations and cartoons;
Bill Holman, inventor of the word “Foo” and character Smokey Stover,
which was very popular during WW2. There were many Foo
expressions, and even a Foo Car was developed. The Nappanee
Museum has an actual Foo Car. Others were Fred Neher, who featured
Nappanee in his cartoons as did Merrill Blosser, who drew Freckles
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and Friends cartoons. Frances “Mike” Parks, drew political cartoons.
There was also a 7th illustrator as well, J. Harrison Hossler, who
designed a local church and did portraits. There are over 1,000
illustrations by the Nappanee artists in the Museum collection.
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