Shopkeeper, Subject of Painting. He was the genteel shopkeeper portrayed in the Edwin Way Teale's autobiographical “Dune Boy” (Dodd, Mead & Co. New York, 1943). As a boy, Teal spent his summers on his grandparents' farm enjoying the nearby village of Furnessville. From 1883 until 1909, Lewry was the Post Master at the Furnessville Post Office, which was located in his "Lewry & Son” dry goods store in a tiny hamlet of the Indiana Dunes. In 1858 his parents, English immigrants from Brighton, moved to the dunes country along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, now the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. In the tiny village of Furnessville, the family became the local shopkeepers, township trustees and Postmaster. Their store, a Mid-Victorian brick structure built in 1863 and the garden in the local cemetery were portrayed by the local artists Vinol M.S. Hannell and Hazel Hannell. They were part of a colony of painters, potters and sculptors who began to settle among the dunes in the 1920’s. Also there were "The Furnessville Ten", who were students of the American Master, George Bellows; he had taught at the School of the Chicago Art Institute in 1919. Hannell’s painting “The Village Store” portrays the interior of Lewry’s store and of the eccentric locals who gathered in the evenings round the store’s pot bellied stove while gossiping with their host Henry Lewry. Hannell’s work was exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute in 1933 during the Century of Progress World’s Fair.
Shopkeeper, Subject of Painting. He was the genteel shopkeeper portrayed in the Edwin Way Teale's autobiographical “Dune Boy” (Dodd, Mead & Co. New York, 1943). As a boy, Teal spent his summers on his grandparents' farm enjoying the nearby village of Furnessville. From 1883 until 1909, Lewry was the Post Master at the Furnessville Post Office, which was located in his "Lewry & Son” dry goods store in a tiny hamlet of the Indiana Dunes. In 1858 his parents, English immigrants from Brighton, moved to the dunes country along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, now the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. In the tiny village of Furnessville, the family became the local shopkeepers, township trustees and Postmaster. Their store, a Mid-Victorian brick structure built in 1863 and the garden in the local cemetery were portrayed by the local artists Vinol M.S. Hannell and Hazel Hannell. They were part of a colony of painters, potters and sculptors who began to settle among the dunes in the 1920’s. Also there were "The Furnessville Ten", who were students of the American Master, George Bellows; he had taught at the School of the Chicago Art Institute in 1919. Hannell’s painting “The Village Store” portrays the interior of Lewry’s store and of the eccentric locals who gathered in the evenings round the store’s pot bellied stove while gossiping with their host Henry Lewry. Hannell’s work was exhibited at the Chicago Art Institute in 1933 during the Century of Progress World’s Fair.
Bio by: Trent D. Pendley
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