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Hopper, Floyd D.
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Floyd D. Hopper (1909-1984) was born near French Lick in Martin County, Indiana. He turned down a scholarship to DePauw University to attend John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana; he attended on scholarship. He received a certificate in 1933, since no official degrees were offered at the time. He later returned to Herron to earn a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1940. Artists that Hopper studied under while at Herron include William Forsyth, Clifton Wheeler, Paul Hadley, Roy C. Nuse, George Harding, Francis Speight, Donald M. Mattison, Henrik M. Mayer, Eliot O