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| 146. A key figure in the development
of the Brown County, Indiana artist colony, Adolph Robert Shulz
(1869 - 1963) arrived there in 1900 and is generally considered
to be the "father" of that group of painters. He is
known for his landscapes but also did portraiture. He was born
in Delavan, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Art Students League in New York and with William Merritt
Chase. He returned to Delavan many summers to paint. Around 1900,
he began trips to Nashville, Indiana, and he eventually moved
there with his family in 1917. From 1925 to 1942, he exhibited
at the Hoosier Salon and also at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The right image is by T.C. Steele, an artist well documented
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Adolph Robert Shulz "Haunt
of the Muskrat"
H. 38" X W. 48" After Treatment
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T.C. Steele "Winding Road"
H. 30" X W. 45" Before Treatment
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| George Winter (1809-1876) was
born in England. He frequented London's museums and galleries
as a young man but apparently received no formal training in
art. In 1830, Winter emigrated to New York where he studied for
a short time at the National Academy of Design. In 1837, he arrived
by stagecoach in the frontier town of Logansport, Indiana, coming,
as he said, "..to the Wabash for the purpose...of seeing
and learning something of the Indians and exercising the pencil
in the (sic.) direction." During his lifetime, Winter documented
a vanishing culture. He obtained the confidence of the Miami
and Potawatomi Indians and had unique opportunities to sketch
them as an artist, but, like an historian, he kept accurate records
and wrote prolifically about his paintings and the subjects and
circumstances of his works. These four paintings are owned by
the Indiana State Museum and represent a total of thirty-two
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George Winter "Spotted Fawn"
H. 21" X W. 17" Before Treatment
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T.C. Steele "16th Street--Winter
Morning"
H. 22" X W. 27" After Treatment
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Winter "Spotted Fawn"
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| 147. The West Bend Art Museum,
West Bend, Wisconsin is the owner of these two works of art.
The museum has the finest collection of works by Carl von Marr
and also collects works by Wisconsin regionalist artists. The
left image is by Wilhelm Schroeter (1849-1904) while the right
is by Friedrich W. Heine (1845-1921). Both artists, with German
heritage, settled in Wisconsin and are known for their landscape
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Wilhelm Schroeter "Winter
Landscape" 1889
H. 30" X W. 21" Before Treatment
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Friedrich W. Heine "Clark's Bluff"
1920
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| 148. This wonderful portrait
seems to capture the essence of the sitter. The brushstroking
is open and free, reminiscent of a western style at the time.
The painting is owned by the Hinsdale Historical Society, Hinsdale,
Illinois.and was painted by Hugh W. Ditzler (1870-1949). Ditzler
began his art training at the Art Institute of Chicago, although
he frequently traveled to Paris to study at the Academie Julian.
While a competent draftsman, Ditzler was keenly interested in
iron-work and from 1920 on he devoted himself entirely to this
discipline. One of his larger projects was the ornamental iron-work
for the Williamsburg, Virginia, restoration program. This portrait
has been torn in the cheek area and is highly discolored from
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Hugh Ditzler "Portrait of Jack Donkin"
ca. 1880
H. 21" X W. 14" Before Treatment
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Homer Davisson "Along the Trail"
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149. Indiana Impressionist landscape
painter Homer G. Davisson (1866-1957), studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Art Students League,
New York City; and the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C.
He exhibited, primarily pastoral landscapes, at the Hoosier Salon,
Swope Art Gallery, Fort Wayne Art Museum, and the Indiana Artists'
Club. From 1920, Davisson regularly summered in Nashville, Indiana,
where he became a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery
Association in 1926. His haunting "Self-Portrait" was
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| 150. One of the great Chicago
African-American artists was William Edouard Scott (1884-1964).
He was born in Indianapolis and studied at the Art Institute
of Chicago where he received early training as a muralist. After
further study in Paris at the Académie Julian and with
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Scott returned to Chicago where he painted
numerous portraits and murals. In 1931, he traveled to Haiti
where he was an artist in residence under a Julius Rosenwald
Fellowship. I have had the pleasure of overseeing the conservation
all of his surviving murals in Chicago, including works at Shoop
Elementary School, Lane Technical College Preparatory School
and the Wabash YMCA. His great murals at Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist
Church were destroyed last year in a devastating fire which gutted
the entire building. The left image is drawn from his Haitian
period while the two right images are by one of his great teachers,
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937). The Art Institute of Chicago
owns Tanner's haunting "Self-Portrait" while his American
icon, "The Banjo Lesson " is in the collection of the
Huntington Memorial Library in Hampton, Virginia. Tanner initially
studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts in Philadelphia. In 1891 he moved to Paris where he studied
at the Académie Julian. His "Resurrection of Lazarus"
won the gold medal at the Salon of 1897 and was later purchased
by the French government. Tanner died in Étaples, Normandy,
France in 1937. These three oils are owned by the DuSable Museum
of African-American History, Chicago, Illinois. |
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William Scott "Flower Girl"
H.21" X W. 14" Before
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H. Tanner "Death Pursuing Youth"
1894 H. 12" X W. 16" Before
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Henry Tanner "Landscape"
H. 16" X W. 9" Before
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