Carl Christopher Graf

Artist
Birth: September 24th, 1892
Birth City: Bedford, Indiana
Birth County: Lawrance
Death: January 28th, 1947
Death City:
Married: Genevieve Goth
Known For: Landscapes and Still Life

Associations: Charter member of the Indiana Artists Club, Charter Member of the Sculptors Society, Charter member and first president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association

Awards:

Biography of Carl Christopher Graf

1. Studied at the Heron Art Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Student Art League of New York City and at the Cincinnati of Fine Art
2. Studied portrait painting and sculptor for seven years
3. Worked as a cartoonist after high school for the Bedford Daily Democrat
4. Met Varaldo J. Cariani while on the East Coast
5. Took camping trips to paint Brown County
6. Built a home and studio and frame shop outside of Nashville in 1925
7. Met and married Genevieve Goth Graf, Marie Goth’s sister
8. Built a home and studio east of Nashville, IN.
9. The first president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926
10. Over six feet tall with the nickname of “shorty.”

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Graf paintings sell at auction for $8,000 and $4,500

Sources:
1. M. Joanne Nesbit and Barbara Judd - Those Brown County Artists - "The Ones Who Came, the Ones Who Stayed, The Ones Who Moved On 1900 - 1950" - Nanna's Books 1993
2. Lyn Letsinger-Miller - The Artists of Brown County - Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis 1994