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Hilah Tanner <I>Drake</I> Wheeler

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Hilah Tanner Drake Wheeler

Birth
New Jersey, USA
Death
30 May 1970 (aged 92)
Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section Q, Lot 10, Endowment No. 615
Memorial ID
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Daughter of Alexander Wilson Drake (1843 - 1916) and Hilah Tanner (Lloyd) Drake (died 1-9-1885 at age 38) Married to Clifton Wheeler Dec.19,1910 (Buried in the Mooresville Cemetery, Mooresville, Indiana in the Wheeler Family Plot) Mother of Hilah Mary (Wheeler) Remaily
(Nov, 15, 1911 - Jan, 8, 2002) Grandmother of HIlah Katrina Remaily who was born Nov. 3, 1938.

EDUCATION: Art Student League, NY











*Famed Indiana Artist*

Hilah Tanner Drake was born in Newark, NJ in 1877, and studied at the Art Students League in New York City from 1896 to 1902. While there, she took classes with John Twachtman, George Bridgman, H. Siddons Mowbray, and William Merritt Chase, among others.

Hilah married the artist Clifton Wheeler in 1910 and began participating in a variety of group shows throughout Indianapolis. She worked primarily in watercolor, painting still lifes. Hilah also designed bookplates and hand-cut silhouettes. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Irvington Historical Society.

Daughter of Alexander Wilson Drake (1843 - 1916) and Hilah Tanner (Lloyd) Drake (died 1-9-1885 at age 38) Married to Clifton Wheeler Dec.19,1910 (Buried in the Mooresville Cemetery, Mooresville, Indiana in the Wheeler Family Plot) Mother of Hilah Mary (Wheeler) Remaily
(Nov, 15, 1911 - Jan, 8, 2002) Grandmother of HIlah Katrina Remaily who was born Nov. 3, 1938.

EDUCATION: Art Student League, NY











*Famed Indiana Artist*

Hilah Tanner Drake was born in Newark, NJ in 1877, and studied at the Art Students League in New York City from 1896 to 1902. While there, she took classes with John Twachtman, George Bridgman, H. Siddons Mowbray, and William Merritt Chase, among others.

Hilah married the artist Clifton Wheeler in 1910 and began participating in a variety of group shows throughout Indianapolis. She worked primarily in watercolor, painting still lifes. Hilah also designed bookplates and hand-cut silhouettes. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Irvington Historical Society.



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