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John Wesley Hardrick
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John Wesley Hardrick (September 21, 1891 – October 18, 1968) was an African-American artist.
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Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
Said in 1914 during an exhibit at Allen Chapel in Indianapolis; cited in William Edward Taylor, Harriet Garcia Warkel and Margaret Taylor Burroughs, A Shared Heritage, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Cf. John Ruskin: "Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality," from Lectures on Art (1870), lecture III
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Category:Painters from the United States
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Category:People from Indiana