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Robert Whitmore: A Devoted Sense of Place

April 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Creatives

Robert H. Whitmore was born in Dayton in 1890 and attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1913-1917 where he studied drawing, painting, sculpture and anatomy, as well as architecture, illustration, and woodcarving. Whitmore taught at the Dayton Art Institute from 1920-23 where nineteen of his works remain in the permanent collection. During this period he developed his printmaking skills as a member of the Dayton Society of Etchers. With his wife, Elizabeth Ann Bennett, and their five children he lived in a house outside of Yellow Springs that was formerly owned by Horace Mann, first President of Antioch College

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Handing Over The Keys To Antioch College

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments · News

Lee Morgan and Matthew Derr pose with the keys to Antioch College after they were transferred from Antioch University to the Antioch College Continuation Corporation on Friday, Sept. 4, on the horseshoe on the Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs. [Photo by Chris Stewart/Dayton Daily News] Via the AP/Dayton Daily News: YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio — [...]

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An L.A. View of ‘Hometown U.S.A.’

September 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Global Village

P.J. Huffstutter of the Los Angeles Times is reporting this week from Yellow Springs: “Lawn signs and bumper stickers around town still rally support for Antioch College — an academic icon of the 1960s counterculture and the civil rights and antiwar movements that ran out of money and closed more than a year ago. “The [...]

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