studio for a time in the 1920s at 541 Indiana Avenue and in 1927 exhibited together at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1927, Hardrick received a Bronze Award from the Harmon foundation for his painting, Portrait of a Young Girl. Beginning in 1928, Hardrick received grants from the Harmon Foundation for 5 years. His art was included in the Second Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Negro Art in San Diego, California in 1929. Also in 1929, his work was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. He and worked as a Works Progress Administration muralist in 1933-34. In 1933 he received a blue ribbon at the Indiana State Fair for his portrait Mammy. His work was also displayed in the Hoosier Salon at Marshall Field Art Gallery in Chicago, Illinois in 1929, 1931, and 1934. From July 4-September 2, 1940, Hardrick's work was included as part of the Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851–1940) in the Tanner Art Galleries in Chicago, Illinois. Hardrick's works include certain holdings at the Indianapolis Museum of Art including: Little Brown Girl, created in 1927 (which was purchased by Indianapolis African-American citizens and donated to the IMA in 1929, and re-acquired in 1993). Winter Landscape, created in 1945 and Untitled Landscape Hardwick's art is also owned by the Indiana State Museum. It was exhibited February 1-March 16, 1977 as part of the Woodruff, Hardrick, and Scott exhibition. It was also exhibited earlier, on March 23-April 4, 1929 as part of the Exhibition of Fine Art by Negro Artists. Certain of Hardrick's works are lost, including Lady X and murals painted for a WPA commission for local Indianapolis schools. The story of the loss of Lady X reveals the strained finances of Hardrick in 1933. The Harmon Foundation had been exhibiting the piece and returned it to Hardrick via Railway Express. The artist was unable to pay the freight charges to retrieve the work, and records of its present location are unavailable. Memorial John Wesley Hardrick is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. A building on the campus of Indianapolis University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) is also named after the artist. Important events in the life of John Wesley Hardrick References Further reading Hampton, R. Kumasi, The great migration the evolution of African American art, 1790–1945, 2000. Taylor, William E., A shared heritage art by four African Americans, 1996 . Bearden, Romare