FRANCIS HENRY DART

(PAPERS, 1904-35)

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BIOGRAPHY

Francis Henry Dart (1845-1935), an artist who spent much of his life overcoming obstacles, was enrolled in the Preparatory Department and the College, 1864-68. He was forced to leave school for financial and family reasons and between 1868-70 lived in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Illinois and Kansas. He next worked until 1879 at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, where he received the AB and AM degrees. In 1879 he went to Colorado to mine for gold near Breckenridge. He returned in 1880, opened his first Oberlin studio, and married Mary T. Leonard (1872-77 Prep. & Lit.), a daughter of Hervey Leonard who was his mother's second husband. Dart studied in Paris in 1890, had a studio in Saratoga Springs, New York, until 1892, farmed and painted at Elmore, Ohio, until 1900 when Frank and Mary and their two children, Sidney and Helen, returned to Oberlin where he again opened a studio. He was an Oberlin resident from that time.

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