{"id":487,"date":"2020-07-15T19:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamaharper.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2021-08-22T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T15:44:32","slug":"education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.williamaharper.com\/education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

                                              Education<\/strong> \u2013Last updated July 15, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Years<\/strong> – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Harper\u2019s obituary, Harper moved from Cayuga to Petersburg, Illinois, in 1885, at the age of 11, where he attended school[1]<\/a>.  Conflicting information as to the timing of Harper\u2019s immigration to the U.S. is found, however, in the 1900 US Federal Census which indicates that one William Harper, \u201cartist\u201d, born in Canada in December of 1873, immigrated to the US in 1881.  Regardless of his immigration date, all indications are that he joined his father on a farm in Illinois sometime in the 1880\u2019s.[2]<\/a>  According to the 1914 obituary of Harper\u2019 brother John William Harper, John came to the U.S. in 1888.[3]<\/a>  It is curious that the two brothers would not have arrived at the same time, but these are the only references that we have at this time as to their immigration dates.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From boyhood Harper is reported to have\nshown a talent for art.[4]<\/a>  According to Florence Lewis Bentley, who\nappears to have met Harper and wrote a lengthy article about him in 1905, \u201cIt\nis to these early days in the country that the artist owes his deep\nunderstanding of Nature\u2019s moods, and it is there where he formed the\ndetermination to follow the elusive Mistress Art; leaving all others to cleave\nonly unto her.\u201d [5]<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper\u2019s obituary further states that in\n1891 he moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, a town about 40 miles from\nPetersburg.  The next reference to Harper\nis found in the Catalogue of Illinois College and Whipple Academy of\nJacksonville, Illinois for the school calendar year 1894 to 1895.  William Harper of Petersburg is listed on\npage 100 as a junior in the Whipple Academy. \nIt is curious that he would have been listed as from Petersburg if he\nhad in fact moved to Jacksonville in 1891 as indicated in his obituary.  Nevertheless, by 1894, Harper was clearly\nattending school in Jacksonville.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whipple Academy was essentially a\ncollege preparatory school described in the Catalogue as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhipple Academy, the Preparatory\nDepartment of Illinois College, is a secondary school of high grade.  In addition to fitting its graduates for\nadmission to Illinois College or to any college or university in the country,\nit affords special advantages for the pursuit of English and business courses\nof study and for young teachers who wish to qualify themselves for higher\ngrades of work.\u201d[6]<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the direction and management of\nthe trustees of the Illinois College, but was maintained as a separate and\ndistinct institution, Whipple Academy offers superior advantages in preparation\nfor college\u2026\u201d[7]<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instruction was given by the regular\ncollege professors, and the Academy students had the benefit of the college\nlibrary, laboratories and apparatus. \nTuition charges were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall Term                    $18.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winter\nTerm                $15.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring\nTerm                $12.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Harper\u2019s father still lived in Petersburg\nat this time (and there is not information one way or the other), Harper would\nhave boarded in Jacksonville, but whether at the college or in town is unknown.  According to the regulations in the\nCatalogue, Academy students were required to attend morning prayers, and \u201cto\nyield a cheerful obedience to the regulations of the institution\u201d.[8]<\/a>  Students who were not residents of\nJacksonville, which would probably have included Harper. were not allowed to\nleave the city at any time without the prior permission of the Principal.  According to the Program of Study for\njuniors, Harper would have studied, among other things, rhetoric, Latin,\nalgebra, literature, and botany.[9]<\/a>  Notably, there were no classes in art.  Harper must have been there only one year\nsince he does not appear in the prior year catalogue (1893-1894) or the\nsubsequent year catalogue (1895-96).  Some\nsecondary sources have erroneously reported that Harper attended college in\nJacksonville, when in fact the Whipple Academy was actually a secondary, or\ncollege preparatory, school.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, U.S. Census records for\n1890 no longer exist for most of Illinois, having been destroyed in 1921 by a\nfire in the Commerce Department Building in Washington, D.C.  Accordingly, other than the above referenced Whipple\nAcademy catalogue, our only source of information as to his whereabouts between\n1881 and 1895 when he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago (\u201cAIC\u201d) comes\nfrom magazine and newspaper articles written later in Harper\u2019s life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it is not known whether Harper\nand his brother John immigrated at the same time, an article from Decatur,\nIllinois Daily Republican indicates that by January of 1889, John was living in\nDecatur.[10]<\/a>  The paper reported that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast night there was a pleasant holiday\nsocial surprise party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mauzee on South\nFranklin street, at which there was music, dancing and a fin supper at 12\no\u2019clock.  The company included\u2026Eliza\nKinney\u2026John Harper\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The relationship between Eliza and John\nblossomed, and on March 15, 1893, the Decatur Herald announced that \u201cThe cards\nare out announcing the approaching nuptials of John W. Harper and Miss Eliza\nKenney, well known young people in colored society.\u201d[11]<\/a>  The paper subsequently reported that <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the home of Mrs. Hannah Kinney on\nWest Marietta street, at 8 o\u2019clock on Tuesday evening, March 21, her daughter,\nEliza, was married to John W. Harper\u2026The bride wore a prettily made costume of\nwhite china silk, her ornaments being natural flowers.  A large number of guests were present, and\nafter the ceremony a splendid supper was served.  The young couple received a number of\nhandsome presents, and will commence housekeeping on West Decatur street.  The groom is an employe[sic] of the\nShellaburger Mill and Elevator company, and is a worthy young man.\u201d[12]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wedding is recorded in the Illinois,\nMarriage Index, 1860-1920.  Curiously,\nthere is a listing of a \u201cHarper George (col\u2019d), lab 467 W. Main\u201d in the\nDecatur, Illinois city directory of 1893, the year of John\u2019s marriage, but no\nfurther information as to whether this is the missing younger brother.  George\u2019s name does not appear in any of the\nDecatur newspaper articles reporting on John\u2019s marriage, but then neither does\nWilliam\u2019s or his father\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sad note two years later in the\nDecatur Daily Republican announced the death of John and Eliza\u2019s two week old\nson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJohn, the two weeks old son of Mr. and\nMrs. John Harper, died this morning at the family residence, 1179 East Condit\nstreet. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o\u2019clock from the\nresidence.\u201d[13]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1890s John was active in the\n\u201cPride Tabernacle No. 36, a benevolent colored organization\u201d[14]<\/a>, the \u201cDecatur Lodge, No.\n17, colored Masons\u201d [15]<\/a>, and the Antioch Baptist\nChurch, often as a soloist.[16]<\/a>  Various Decatur newspaper articles indicate\nthat John Harper, Sr. (Harper\u2019s father) was also present in Decatur at least by\n1902, and was also active in the Antioch Baptist Church.[17]<\/a>  One article entitled \u201cProgressive Colored\nPeople in Decatur\u201d from 1902 discussed various residents of Decatur, and noted\nthat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJohn Harper is a truck farmer and has a\nten-acre place near the city which is in as fine state of cultivation as any\ntruck farm in this vicinity.\u201d[18]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article does not indicate whether\nthe reference is to John Harper, Jr. or John Harper. Sr., but it was likely the\nformer since the 1903 Decatur City Directory lists John, Jr.\u2019s address as \u201cres\n\u00be mile n of city\u201d[19]<\/a>, and his father\u2019s address\nas being in the city at \u201d429 E. Cerro Gordo\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art Institute of Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometime after his year in Jacksonville\nat the Whipple Academy, Harper moved to Chicago and enrolled at the AIC .  According to a later article from the Chicago\nNews, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarper came to Chicago some years ago\nwithout money.  He dreamed of art and\nsoon found a friend in George B. Carper[20]<\/a>secretary of the AIC.  He was made janitor of the building and\nbetween his duties in that capacity studied art, drawing and painting.\u201d[21]<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the words of another\nnewspaper article, \u201cWhen he was not scrubbing floors and washing windows he was\nstudying pictures and drawing.\u201d[22]<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Circular of\nInstruction of the School of Drawing, Painting, Modelling, Decorative Designing\nand Architecture for the AIC<\/a> (\u201cCircular\u201d) of that time states that the\nschool year was made up of three terms of twelve weeks each, beginning in\nOctober and ending in June.  The tuition\nfor one term was $25.00, making tuition for the full year $75.00.  Pupils could enter the school without\nexamination.  They were not assigned to\nspecial classes until the first monthly examination after their entrance, when\ntheir work was considered by the board of teachers.  They were then classified \u201cin accordance with\ntheir attainments\u201d.  The school of\ndrawing and painting was divided into four classes through which the student\nwas expected to pass in succession.  The\nclasses were:  1.  Elementary, 2.  Intermediate, 3. Antique, and 4. Life.  Promotion from class to class was made\nthrough examinations held every four weeks. \nThe Diploma of the school was conferred upon students who held the rank\nof Life Students for two years and who passed certain final examinations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Records as to Harper\u2019s classes in his\nfirst year of 1895-96 are not available. \nHe must have progressed through the Elementary, Intermediate, and\nAntique classes fairly rapidly, however, because by 1996 he had already been\npromoted to the Life Class.  AIC records[23]<\/a> show that Harper\u2019s classes\nfor the balance of his time at the AIC were as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1896-97: \n        Life Class \u2013 Home:  Jacksonville, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1897-98: \n        Life Class \u2013 Home:  Petersburg, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1898-99: \n        Life Class \u2013 Home:  Jacksonville, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                        Saturday\nNormal Class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1899-1900       Advanced Life Class: \nPetersburg, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1900-01           Saturday\nNormal Class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Saturday Normal Class was a class\ndesigned for those students who intended to be \u201cteachers of drawing in public\nschools\u201d.  Note the ambiguity as to\nHarper\u2019s home town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The students of the Art Institute annually\nheld an \u201cExhibition of Art Students\u2019 League of Chicago\u201d.  This was a juried exhibition.  For the December 19 \u2013 December 31,1899\nexhibition, four landscapes and one black and white by Harper were\naccepted.  The landscapes are listed in\nthe catalogue for that exhibition as numbers 40-43, being priced from $5.00 to\n$25.00.  The black and white is listed as\nnumber 218, and is entitled \u201cCharlie\u201d, priced at $2.50.  The Chicago Tribune reported that three items\nwere sold from the exhibition, including one landscape in oil by Harper.[24]<\/a>  For the January 31 \u2013 February 24, 1901 exhibition,\nthree landscapes by Harper were accepted. \nThey are listed in the exhibition catalogue as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            32.       Midday. \nOil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            33.       August. \nOil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            34.       The meadow.  Oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No prices were given in that catalogue,\nand there is no indication as to whether any sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Circular for the year 1900-01, which\nincluded a Catalogue of Students for 1899-1900, reproduced one of Harper\u2019s oil\npaintings on p. 87 which was a nude labeled \u201cOil from Life.  William Harper\u201d.  This same painting was also reproduced in\n1901 in The Brush and Pencil, Vol. 7, No. 6 (Mar., 1901) p. 369, an\ninternational art magazine published in Chicago. This recognition was certainly\nan honor for a student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his time at the AIC Harper developed\nfriendships with a number of instructors, artists, and fellow students with\nwhom he would continue to associate over the years.  Charles Francis Browne taught \u201cAntique and\nHistory of Art\u201d and Lorado Taft, the sculptor, taught modeling at the AIC.  The two instructors were founding members of\nthe Eagle\u2019s Nest Art Colony (\u201cEagle\u2019s Nest\u201d), a retreat dedicated to the arts\nestablished in 1898 in Oregon, Illinois,[25]<\/a> and took an interest in\nHarper inviting him to both work and paint in the summers at the Eagle\u2019s\nNest.  A fellow artist William Wendt was\nalso a member of the Eagle\u2019s Nest.  Both\nBrowne and Wendt are described as mentors of Harper during his AIC days and\nthereafter.[26]<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albert Krehbiel, who was in Harper\u2019s\nAdvance Life Class in his final year, seems to have formed a particularly close\nfriendship with Harper, and is the source of most of the information that is\navailable regarding Harper during his time in Paris from the fall of 1903\nthrough the spring of 1904.  Dulah Evans,\nwho would become the finance of Albert Krehbiel, was in Harper\u2019s Saturday\nNormal Class (1900-01) and Advance Life Class (1899-1900).  Other AIC students with whom Harper would\nassociate with later in Paris include Worthington E. Hagerman, Willliam E.\nCook, Leon Lorado Merton Gruenhagen, and Henry Salem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One other fellow student should also be\nmentioned.  Blanche Williams was a\nstudent from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, who went on to teach in the public school\nsystem in Houston, Texas, preceding Harper there by one year.  AIC records show that in 1897-98 she was in\nthe Life Class with Harper.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the subject of the Eagle\u2019s\nNest Art Colony, the founding members were educators, some teaching at the AIC.[27]<\/a>  Taft started a mentoring program at Eagle\u2019s\nNest whereby students known as \u201ccamp boys\u201d were invited to the camp to assist\nthe artists in their studios, and thereby gain invaluable on-site instruction.[28]<\/a>  Elizabeth Dickerson Palmer, the daughter of\nJames Spencer Dickerson, one of the founders of Eagle\u2019s Nest, wrote \u201cAn account\nof the Eagle\u2019s Nest Camp\u201d in 1958, in which she described the camp:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first summers were exciting.  The artists were young, their reputations lay\nahead of them; they were poor, but there was work to be done \u2013 they were eager\nand gay and confident\u2026.There were students spending the summer, there were\nteachers and musicians, there were writers and social workers and business men;\nin fact, anyone interested in or connected with the arts who happened to be in\nor near Chicago sooner or later turned up for a week-end, often for several\nweek-ends.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palmer specifically remembered Harper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarper, a gifted student of Mr.\nBrowne\u2019s belongs to those early days, too.  He waited on the table when it stood outdoors\nunder a tent-fly, and painted in his spare time.  When that was it\u2019s a mystery, but I remember\none exhibition of his oil paintings that showed real talent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1905, an article in the Inter Ocean\n(Chicago, Illinois), February 9, 1905, p. 5, reporting on an exhibition opening\nat the AIC which included paintings by Harper, addressed the Eagle\u2019s Nest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarper, incidentally, is a great\nfavorite at the Eagle\u2019s Nest in summer, where he goes each summer as \u2018assistant\u2019\nin a general work sense.  \u2018He is so\nhandsome and well mannered,\u2019 said one of the artists to me yesterday as we\ntalked over the exhibit, \u2018that we scarcely have the face to ask him for\nservice; though, for that matter, he is perfect in manner, and never intrudes\nhis admirable personality.  His\nself-effacement is a part of his personal charm.  But it is his work that has commanded our\ngenuine admiration and respect.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper would not have been at the\nEagle\u2019s Nest during the summers of 1903 and 1904 since he was in Europe, so the\ndiscussion must have related to his work at the camp during the earlier\nsummers, either during his school days or his later teaching years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only other information available\nabout Harper during this time frame comes from the 1900 United States Federal\nCensus, and may show that he spent at least one summer (or a part thereof) in\nMichigan.  On June 1, 1900, William Harper\n(per the census single, birthdate December 1873 in Canada) is listed as an\nartist living with Stephen (barber) and Margrett Egbert (music teacher) in Armada\nVillage, Armada Township, Michigan.  His\nrelationship to the head of family is \u201cbro-in-law\u201d, which is curious since\nrecords to not show that he had a sister named Margrett, and Margrett cannot be\nFrances by another name since Margrett\u2019s birthdate is four years earlier than\nthat of Frances.  In any event, the 1880\nmarriage records for Margrett and Stephen indicate that her maiden name was\n\u201cLeop\u201d[29]<\/a>.  Like Harper, however, Margrett is listed as\nhaving been born in Canada.  In the 1900 census,\nMargrett\u2019s date of entry into the U.S. is noted as 1873, while Harper\u2019s is listed\nas 1881.  This U.S. census record is\ninconsistent with Harper\u2019s Obituary which states that he came to the U.S. in\n1885 at the age of 11.  More\nsignificantly, however, the Canadian census records show him in Canada in 1881.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same 1900 US Federal Census shows\nHarper\u2019s brother, John W. Harper (laborer) and his wife Eliza as living in\nDecatur, Illinois, which information is consistent with the Decatur, Illinois\nnewspaper articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper graduated from the\nAIC \u201cwith the second honors\u201d in 1901[30]<\/a>,\npresumably meaning that he placed second in his graduating class.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> Obituary, op. cit<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a>\nThere is a reference in a 1910 article in the Decatur Herald to William\u2019s\n\u201cparents\u201d, but since his biological mother died in 1876 must have been\nreferring to either the woman that his father married in 1877 or a later wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a>\n\u201cDeaths\u201d, The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois), May 23, 1914, p. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a>\n\u201cColored Artist Dies in Mexico\u201d, Decatur Herald, March 30, 1910, p. 12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> “William A.\nHarper” by Bentley, Florence L. (January 1906) in The Voice of the\nNegro; Obituary, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vol. 4, No. 1 (July\n1910), p. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> Catalogue\nof Illinois College and Whipple Academy of Jacksonville, Illinois for the\nschool calendar year 1894 to 1895, p. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> Ibid.,\np. 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> Ibid.,\np. 87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> Ibid.,\np. 90-91<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a>\nSee Decatur Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois), January 3, 1889, p. 3;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a>\nDecatur Herald, \u201cA Wedding Announced\u201d, March 15, 1893, p. 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a>\nDecatur Herald, \u201cWedding in Colored Society\u201d, March 23, 1893, p 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a>\n\u201cDeath of An Infant\u201d, Decatur Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois), November 2,\n1895, p. 8.  John W. Harper \u201c(col\u2019d),\npacker Shellabarger Mill Co\u201d was the only John Harper listed in the 1895\nDecatur City Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a>\n\u201cOfficers Elected\u201d, The Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois), April 9, 1890, p. 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a>\u201cTwenty-Sixth\nAnniversary\u201d, The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois), January 26, 1897. p. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a>\nThe Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois), May 3, 1899, p. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a>\nThe Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois), December 28, 1902, p. 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a>\n\u201cProgressive Colored People in Decatur\u201d, The Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois),\nJanuary 12, 1902, p. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a>\nThe 1907 Decatur City Directory more specifically lists that address as \u201crural\nroute No. 3.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> This\nname is probably incorrect if intended to refer to the Secretary of the AIC.  The actual name of the Secretary at that time\nwas Newton H. Carpenter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> Chicago News, \u201cColored Man Wins Position\u201d,\nFebruary 6, 1905. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> Decatur\nDaily Review, \u201cNegro Janitor, A Prize Artist\u201d, February 3, 1905, p. 3.  See also, Jamestown N.Y. Journal, February 4,\n1905 –  From AIC Scrapbook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a>\nCatalogue of Students and their classes published with the Art Institute\u2019s\nannual Circular..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a>\n\u201cThe Field of Art\u201d, Chicago Tribune, December 24, 1899, p 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> \u201cThe\nEagle\u2019s Nest\u201d, Brush and Pencil, Vol. 2, No. 6 (Sep., 1898), pp. 269-275.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a>  \u201cPaintings of Note in Art Collection, Opening\nof Exhibit on Fourth\u201d, Ogle County Reporter, Vol. LXVII, No. 38, July 10, 1918,\nreproduced in The Art of Oregon, by Beth Baker Simeone, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> Art\nand Beauty in the Heartland, by Jan Stilson, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. 113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a>\nMichigan, County Marriage Records, 1822-40. \nNo Leop of Margrett\u2019s age appears in the Canadian census records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a>  Catalogue for the memorial \u201cExhibition of\nPaintings of William A. Harper\u201d held at the AIC from July 26 to August 28,\n1910.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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