president (1919–1936). In 1920 he made an unsuccessful run as a Republican candidate for governor of Indiana. The Feslers, who resided at 4035 North Pennsylvania Street in Indianapolis, had no children. Caroline Fesler inherited from her mother the Marmon family's lakeside summer home at 1100 East Shore Drive at Lake Maxinkuckee. Career Fesler's leadership and cultural philanthropy reflected her major interests in fine art and music. Her lifelong contributions to the Indianapolis arts community included financial support and acquisitions of fine art, especially gifts of 20th-century modern art. An avid art collector and arts patron, she supported the work of the Art Association of Indianapolis (the forerunner to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design) for several decades, in addition to serving as president of the Arts Association in the 1940s, when the association maintained the John Herron Art Museum and the Herron art school. Fesler also enjoyed classical music. She was a patron of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and founded the city's Ensemble Music Society. Art collector Fesler's major art collecting interests and acquisitions tended toward Post-Impressionist and modernist paintings, although not exclusively. She collected paintings by Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, and Georgia O'Keeffe, who was also a personal friend, and other artists. Fesler's early art collecting efforts for the Art Association of Indianapolis began as a member of the Gamboliers, a group of Indianapolis art patrons who pooled their funds to acquire the works of contemporary artists whose reputations had not yet been established in the art world and whose work was not yet receiving significant interest from major art collectors and art museums. The group existed from 1927 to 1934 and then disbanded, but its contributions helped build the Herron Museum's modern art collection, in addition to introducing "modern art to a wider audience." The museum accepted 155 works from the Gamboliers. Among the group's most notable acquisitions for the museum was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's color lithograph, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue, in 1936. Fesler also acquired works of art on her own that she anonymously donated to the Art Association's Herron Museum. In the early 1940s her widowed mother, Elizabeth Marmon, made a $1 million bequest to each of her three children as part of their inheritance from their industrialist father, Daniel Marmon. Fesler used the bulk of her inherited funds from this gift to acquire a collection