Brown County Art Gallery 2018 Collectors Showcase

"Steele and Shulz"

"A Brown County Partnership"

Steele and Shulz

The 2018 Brown County Art Gallery Collector showcase opened on September 14th, 2018. The focus of the exhibition was the partnership between Theodore Clement Steele and Adolph Shulz and their contribution to the establishment of the Brown County Art Colony. Rachel Berenson Perry writes "Two tall, slender men, often seen outdoors in the early 1900s, wearing wide-brimmed hats and dabbing at paintings on easels, are similar in appearance and occasionally mistaken for one another in historical photographs. Though from different generations and widely disparate personalities, T. C. Steele and Adolph Shulz both gravitated to the hills of Brown County Indiana, in search of new painting grounds."

As with all of the art exhibitions organized by the Gallery, they never disappoint, and this show was no exception. The organizers put together a fabulous selection of Steele and Shulz art some of which have never before shown in public. With a broad variety of subjects, it was easy to get a sense of the full range of skill and talent the two artists possessed. For admirers of  T. C. Steele's and Adolph Shulz work, this show was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see such quilty work together in one exhibition.

For followers and collectors of Indiana art, I would suggest monitoring the Brown County Art Gallery website or facebook for future events. You can expect another excellent show will be just around the corner.