October 10, 2007

Artist and teacher Olin Herman Travis periodically taught in, and made sketching trips to, Arkansas, mainly Franklin County, for approximately twenty years. While in Dallas, Texas, in 1924, Travis started the first major art school in the South to offer instruction in a variety of fields. In 1927, he opened the Travis Ozark Summer Art School in Franklin County. The school, which enrolled up to fifty students, operated for approximately three years. An award-winning artist, Travis remained an active artist up to his death in 1975.