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Birth
1892 (Powell County, Indiana)
Death
1962 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Lived/Active
Ohio
Photo submitted by Mary Leonhard Ran
Often Known For
portrait, landscape, still life painting
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Born in Powell County, Indiana, John Weis became a painter of varied output that includes regional scenes of Ohio, shaded New England and French streets, still lifes, and portraits.
He moved at a very young age with his family to Higginsport, Ohio and then when he was age nine to Norwood, Ohio. The early death of his father and the struggle of his mother to raise the family were lasting influences on the young man who at age fourteen enrolled in night classes at the Cincinnati Academy. He (showing 500 of 1715 characters). |
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