Caroline Marmon Fesler (1878 – December 28, 1960) was an American art and music patron, cultural philanthropist, and fine-art collector. Her contributions to the Indianapolis, Indiana, arts community included financial support and gifts of fine art to the Art Association of Indianapolis (the forerunner to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Herron School of Art and Design), in addition to serving as a board member of Herron School of Art (1916–1947) and president of the Art Association of Indianapolis (1941–1947). Fesler was also a patron of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and founded the city's Ensemble Music Society. Her major art collecting interests and acquisitions tended toward Post-Impressionist and modernist paintings, although not exclusively, and included paintings by Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Georges Seurat, and Vincent van Gogh, among others. The Marmon Memorial Collection, which Fesler established in honor of her parents, remains an important part of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's permanent collections. Early life and education Caroline Marmon was born in 1878 in Richmond, Indiana, to Elizabeth (Carpenter) (1849–1940) and Daniel W. Marmon (1844–1909). Caroline's father, a mechanic and engineer, was a principle of the Nordyke and Marmon Company, a manufacturer of milling equipment that provided the base of the family's wealth. When she was still young the family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where her father became president of a local power and light company and later founded the Marmon Motor Car Company, a luxury automobile manufacturer. Her two older brothers, Walter C. Marmon (1872–1940) and Howard Carpenter Marmon (1876–1943), followed their father into the family's automobile manufacturing business. Marmon grew up in Indianapolis, where she attended local public schools and May Wright Sewall's Girls' Classical School. After graduating from Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, in 1900, Marmon studied painting in Paris. Although she did not become an artist herself, Marmon further developed her lifelong interests in art, music, and French culture while living in France. Marriage Caroline Marmon married James William Fesler (1864–1949), a prominent Indianapolis attorney on June 2, 1917. Fesler, who became a senior partner in the law firm of Fesler, Elam and Young, was a graduate of Indiana University (A.B. degree in 1887; honorary doctorate degree in 1940). He was also as a member of the IU Board of Trustees (1902–1936) and served as the board's vice president (1916–1919) and