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Painter · Instructor at the Fort Wayne Art School, 1911–1947
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Homer Gordon Davisson was born in 1866 at Blountsville, in Henry County, Indiana. He studied at DePauw University, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Students League in New York, and the Corcoran School in Washington, then spent three years studying in Munich, Holland, and France. Returning to Indiana about 1910, he made Fort Wayne his home — his studio stood at 331 West Pontiac Street — and from 1911 to 1947 he was the drawing and painting instructor of the Fort Wayne Art School, training generations of the city's artists. A Hoosier Impressionist known for pastoral Indiana landscapes and flowers, he was a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, summered and painted at Nashville and at Somerset, and was nicknamed the "Dean of Indiana Artists." He died in Fort Wayne in 1957, aged ninety. The Fort Wayne Museum of Art holds more than forty of his paintings, drawings, and prints.
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Sources: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, "Treasures from the Vault: Homer Gordon Davisson" (2022); Allen County Genealogical Society, Homer G. Davisson page.