More than just a painter of Indians
On the night of March 27, 1890, a tornado hit Louisville. Farny must have immediately headed south to sketch the damage for Harper’s Weekly. The magazine published his drawings, titling them The World of the Tornado at Louisville, Kentucky, on April 12, 1890, pages 298-299:
Born June 21, 1930 in New York City, Jean Eilers grew up in Great Neck, New York, the daughter of…
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