Art of Healing: The Wishard Art Collection Book

In 1914, a group of renowned Hoosier artists came together for the benefit of patients at Wishard Memorial Hospital (then known as City Hospital), Indiana's largest public hospital. The prominent artists painted murals to decorate the new building and to lift spirits. A total of sixteen prominent Indiana artists, including William Forsyth, Wayman Adams, Otto Starke, Carl Graf, William Edouard Scott, J. Ottis Adams, and T.C. Steele contributed to this project. Ninety years later the Indiana Historical Society and The Wishard Memorial Foundation, Inc. have collaborated to publish The Art of Healing: The Wishard Art Collection, which includes color reproductions of the artwork and tells the story of the murals.