Michael Burns Art

Birth: 1858 Death:  1936 Married:  Known For:  Landscapes and architecture Associations:  Awards  Facts Illustrated books for Radcliff College, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Boston Spent winters in Richmond IN Interested in capturing architectural detail and recorded historical views of Richmond and Boston Captured in his works of art. buildings and homes which no longer exist today Excellent draftsman as evident in his architectural work, making his work collectible by local residents  Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

Birth: 1857 Death:  1905 Married:  Known For: Landscapes Associations: Awards: Facts John Bundy and others consider Charles to be the best painter in the Richmond Group Was also a musician playing the coronet with his four older brothers in their own orchestra Self-taught and worked as an industrial painter at Hoosier Drill, later the name was changed to International Harvester Loved Plein-air painting, sleeping in a tent for months capturing the landscape around Fountain City Made a name for himself by having “Wet Night in February” exhibited at the St Louis Worlds Fair in 1904 Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

Birth: 1867 Richmond, IN Death:  1945, Seattle, WA Married:  Known For: Floral Still Life, Harbor Scenes Associations: Hoosier Salon Patron Association, Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters, Chicago Gallery Association, Seattle Fine Arts Association Awards:   SAM, 1935-40; Seattle FAS, 1918  and 1923 prizes; Hoosier Salon, 1916.1917  and  1932  prizes Facts Trained at the Art Student League in New York Studied under William Merritt Chase, Frank Dumond, J. Carrol Beckwith, and Irving Wiles Nationally recognized watercolorist An early member of the Richmond Group working with John Bundy to establish the Art Association of Richmond Taught watercolor in the Auditorium Tower studios in Chicago Moved to Seattle Washington to participate in the Seattle Art Colony painting Harbor scenes Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

Birth: 10/6/1856, Louisville, KY Death: 08/7/1945 Married:   Known For: Landscape of Indiana and California Associations: Art Association of Richmond, Los Angeles Art Association, Cincinnati Art Club, Society of Independent Artists Awards: First prize 1903 Cincinnati Art Club, Mary T.R Foulke Prize, Richmond Art Association 1912, Painters &  Sculptors of Los Angeles 1926 Facts Studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy under Frank Duveneck Highly regarded as an artist with talent equivalent to John Elwood Bundy. Moved to Redondo Beach CA in 1910, but continued to remain active in Richmond shows Many California residents called him the Beech Tree painter Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

Birth: 5-1-1853 Guilford County, North Carolina Death: 1-17-1933 Cincinnati, Ohio Married:  Mary Merlatt 1875 Known For: Woodland scenes, beach trees Associations:  Richmond Art Association, Hoosier Salon, Chicago Galleries Association Awards: Herron Art Institute 1917, Indianapolis Art Association 1917, Hoosier Salon 1927 Facts Raised on a farm near Monrovia, IN after his family moved from North Carolina Encouraged by James Whitcomb Riley to further pursue art, Riley gave John books by well-known artists to study Lived 10 years in New York City working as a portraitist and photographer Moved to Richmond, IN in 1888 to became the head of the art department at Earlham College Taught art classes at the college for eight years until he left to paint full time Was considered the dean of the Richmond group of artists Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, National Arts Club in New York John was one of the founders of the Art Association of Richmond Moved

Birth: 2/14/1878 Muncie, IN Death: 1943 Married:  Known For: landscapes Associations: Charter member Richmond Palette club Awards:  Howard Spaulding Jr. prize and the Hoosier Salon, Nye Prize, Muncie Prize 1910 Facts The family moved to Richmond Indiana when George was a young boy Work at Gaar-Scott company painting scenes on farm equipment Studied under John Elwood Bundy in addition to the Boothbay Art School in Maine and the Cincinnati Art Academy Considered at the time to be one of the best landscape painters in Indiana Painted in and around the New England coast and in the mountains Worked in Pastels later in his career Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

Birth: 11-11, 1902 Chicago, IL Death: Married: Known For: Associations: Awards:    Facts Dropped out of high school, attend Art Institute of Chicago for six months Arthur and his brother Frank first visited Brown County in the ’20s when invited by a friend to a cabin on Weedpatch Hill Bought five acres with a cabin in Brown County in 1927 Lived in Nashville when there were no sidewalks Besides painting Art liked to coon hunt with his dog and pan for gold in the streams around Brown County Art was not a member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association because he did not agree with the 20 percent commission. 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

Birth:  January 8, 1903 Death:  2003 Married: George Jo Mess, Edward R Daily Known For: Printmaking, Landscapes Associations: Indiana Artist Club, Indiana Federation of Art Clubs, The Society of Arts and Letters, The Indiana Society Of Print Making, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Hoosier Salon, Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France Awards: Facts Studied at the John Herron Art Institute, Butler University in Indianapolis, School of Painting in the Adirondacks and Printmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago Taught her husband George printmaking, he originally started out as a painter Evelynne founded the Society of Printmakers in 1934 Moved to Chicago from Indianapolis in 1937 where George got a job supervising art reproduction for a magazine Her husband George died in 1962 after a 20 year-long battle with cancer After his death, she moved to Brown County to the land they purchased in 1942 and started the Arts and Crafts summer school located at Ox-Bow

Bi rth: 1-13-1896 Cedar Rapids, IA. Death: 12-20-1967 Married:   Known For: Use of color and violets in his landscapes Associations: Chicago Galleries Association, Painters, and Sculptors of Chicago, Joliet Art League, Palette and Chisel Club of Chicago, Scarab League of Detroit, Hoosier Salon, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Charter Member of Brown County Art Guild Awards:    Facts Studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Prang Traveling School of Art Crafts in New York Did Catalogue work for Montgomery Ward Co, Sears and Roebuck Moved to Brown County in 1936 The advice Anthony gave to an aspiring artist was, “Never expect to reach perfection, you never will. Do not expect an easy road or some magic formula for success, they don’t exist. It takes plain unadulterated years of hard work.” Sources: 1. M. Joanne Nesbit and Barbara Judd - Those Brown County Artists - "The Ones Who Came, the Ones Who Stayed, The Ones Who Moved O

Birth: 10-13-1888 Utica, New York Death:  6-23-1964, Bloomington, IN. Married:  Sally Known For: landscape featuring farm life Associations: Hoosier Salon, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Charter Member of the Brown County Art Guild Awards:    Facts Inspired at an early age when visiting the art museum at the Saint Louis Worlds fair in 1904 Dropped out of school at age 15 taking a job sailing on a schooner Entered the St. Louis School of Fine Art at 21 but never finish and was mainly self-taught Opened a photography studio in Vincennes IN. living there for nine years During the depression years, Jack had to exchange some of his paintings for groceries Lived in a cabin on Cheerful Hill in Brown County Jack visited Brown County regularly during the late 1920s and moved there permanently around 1931 Popular among the men in the area due to his weekly poker games at his cabin that included smoking cigars and drinking whiskey He painted to get by, but once told

Birth:  1-5-1870 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Death: 1-1-1950, Nashville In. Married: Effie Teegarden Known For:  Associations: Associate member of the New York Watercolor Society and the American Watercolor Society,  member Art Institute of Chicago Alumni, Chicago Society of Artist, Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artist Club, Chicago Galleries Association, a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association Awards: Facts At seventeen took a job tinting photographs and moved on to painting landscape on safe's for the American Safe Company Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago Made trips to Brown County to paint staying in the Pitman Inn with fellow artists Gave up a successful commercial art career in Chicago and moved permanently to Nashville in 1926 at 56 Bought a home in downtown Nashville building a studio next door Even though living in Brown County Edward insisted on certain standards like dressing for dinner and using linen napkins He dressed m

Birth: 8-12-1890, Indianapolis, In.  Death: 12-21-1961, Franklin In. Married: Carl Graf Known For: Floral Still Life Associations: Chicago Artist Club, Brown County Art Gallery, Hoosier Salon, Charter member of the Brown County Art Guild Awards: Facts Studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis Indiana, Cincinnati Academy of Art Bought what was called the “most crooked” house in Brown County for her and sister Marie as a summer home After V. J Cariani moved to Nashville, he would meet them on Friday evenings, helping with luggage and treating them to Apple pies She met Carl Graf and took art lessons from him 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 

Artist: Ada Walter Shulz Birth: October 21, 1870 Birth City: Terre Haute, Indiana Death:   1928 Burial: Spring Grove Cemetery in Delavan Wisconsin Marriage: September 5th, 1894 to Adolph Shulz in Delavan Wisconsin Divorced: Adolph Shulz in 1926 Children: Walter Shulz Born June 10th, 1895 Died: December 12, 1918 Artist Summary Subject Matter:   Known for depictions of Children Nd Landscapes Art Associations:   Charter member Brown County Art Association, Indiana Artist Club, Hoosier Salon, Brown County Art Gallery, Society of Western Artists, Chicago Society of Artists, Artist Guild of Chicago, Chicago Galleries Association Art Education: Art Institute of Chicago, Academie Witti Paris Biography of ADA Walter Shulz Formative Years of Ada Walter Shulz (1870 to 1889) Ada was born in Terre Haute on October 21,1870. She was raised by her mother and grandmother after her father passed away from diphtheria. Eventually, Ada’s family moved to Indianapolis in 1884 when sh

Birth: 4-13-1871 Boone County, West Virginia Death: 2-11-1941, Nashville, In . Married: Mary H. Murray around 1906, Ola Genolin 1923 Known For: Illustrations Associations: Chicago Galleries Association, Hoosier Salon, Charter Member Brown County Art Gallery Association Awards:  Hoosier Salon 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1935 Facts As a young boy, Will Vawter loved to draw filling his school books with sketches. He was very talented and, for the most part, self-taught. Worked with his sister on a children’s book called “The Rabbit’s Ransom.” For 30 years, John did illustrations for James Whitcomb Riley that appear in many Riley books. Mary wanted to get Will away from Riley’s lifestyle, more specifically his drinking, so she convinced him to move Brown County permanently in 1908 Brown County at the time was a dry county they bought a 57-acre farm on Town Hill Riley made an excellent income receiving work from Harper and Life magazine illustrations for Riley's books,

Birth: 5-14-1892, Columbus, Ohio Death: 1-5-1974 Married: Ruth Associations: Honorary member of Indiana Artists Club, Member of the Hoosier Salon, Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Chicago Galleries Association, Florida Federated Art Clubs, Charter Member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Charter Member of the Brown County Art Guild Awards: Century of Progress Exhibition Chicago 1933, Hoosier Salon 1939, Indiana Artist Club 1945, Florida Federated Art Show 1940, Daughters of Indiana Prize 1931, Governor gates Purchase Award 1945 Facts Took art and painting courses while studying business at the University of Chicago Worked in his father’s business after graduation Walked to Nashville from Indianapolis in 1910 with a friend and became hooked on Brown County Moved to Brown County with Ruth and son in 1914 living in a rented cabin Purchased a 30-acre apple orchard north of Nashville Bessire did not take up painting until around 1920 after the children were in

Artist: Adolph Robert Shulz Birth: June 12, 1869 Birth City: Delavan Wisconsin Death: January 24, 1963 (age 93) Death City:  Nashville, Indiana Burial: Washington Park Cemetery Indianapolis Indiana 1st Marriage: Ada Walter 1894, Divorced: Ada 1926, Children 1st Marriage: Walter Shulz (Born June 10, 1894, Died 1918) 2nd Marriage: Alberta Rehm 1926 Children: 2nd Marriage : Emillie Artist Summary Subject Matter:   Landscapes Art Associations:   Charter member Brown County Art Association (1926 – 1968), Chicago Galleries Association, Indiana Artist Club, Chicago Society of Artists , Art Education: Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, Academie Julian in Pari and Academie Colarossi in Paris Biography of Adolph Robert Shulz The Early Years of Adolf Shulz (1869 to 1893) When Adolph was a young boy, he was interested in the study of trees, there form, and color, so spent a lot of time in the woods of Delavan, Wisconsin, sketching the landsca

Artist : Claude Curry Bohm Birth:  October 19th, 1894 Birth City:  Nashville, Tennessee Birth County:  Davidson Death:  November 18th, 1971 Death City:  Nashville, In. Burial:  Green Lawn Cemetery, Nashville, In. Marriage : Lillian Harrington (June 4th, 1897 to December 4th, 1981) Children:  None Subject Matter:  Landscapes, Snow Scenes Art Associations:  Chicago Painters and Sculptors Association, Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Hoosier Salon, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Indiana Artist Club, Rockport Art Association, North Shore Art Asociation. Biography of Claude Curry Bohm Courtesy; The Lily Library; Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana Although Claude Curry Bohm was born in Nashville, TN., he spent his childhood growing up in New Orleans. Born to an artist father and actress mother, he grew up in the arts. Curry was able to watch his father Robert paint murals, but unfortunately, Curry's father died when he was young, resulting in the

Birth:   February 8, 1891, Renazzo Italy Death:    December 30, 1969 Known For:   Landscapes and Still Life Art Education:  Studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Student League Associations:   Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artists Club, Springfield Art League ,  Charter Member Brown County Art Gallery, Charter member Brown County Art Guild Death:    December 30, 1969 Known For   Landscapes and Still Life Art Education:  Studied at the National Academy of Design, Art Student League Associations:   Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artists Club, Springfield Art League ,  Charter Member Brown County Art Gallery, Charter member Brown County Art Guild Facts Immigrated to the US at age 3 Grew up in Springfield, MA. Met Marie Goth in New York in 1910 Served with the 28th Division 103rd Trench Mortar Battery in WW I Spent 18 months in Service Moved to Brown County in 1923 Lived in a small House next to Marie Goth Loved and raise many varieties of flowers Also Known for his whistling

Richard Buckner Gruelle Artist:  Richard Buckner Gruelle Birth :  February 22, 1851 Birth City:  Cynthiana Kentucky Birth County:  Harrison Death:   November 8th, 1914 Death City:  Indianapolis, In. Burial:  Crown Hill Married:  Alice Benton (B? - d1935 Children:  Johnny Barton (1880-1938), Justin Carlyle (1889 - 1978), Prudence (1884 - 1966) Artist Summary Formal Training:  Self-Taught Subject Matter:  Portraits, Landscapes Media: Oil, Watercolor, Gouache Art Associations : Art Association of Indianapolis, Society of Western Artists (1896-1914), New Canaan Society of Artists, Hoosier Salon Art Awards: A rt Exhibition: Louisiana Purchase Expo, St Louis Worlds Fair 1904 Biography of Richard Buckner Gruelle The Early Years (1851 - 1879) Richard Buckner was the last child of ten siblings, seven brothers, and three sisters and was born on February 22nd, 1851, in the town of Cynthiana, KY. At the age of six years old, his father moved the family to Arcola, IL. At a

Artist: John Ottis Adams Birth: July 8, 1851 Birth City: Amity Indiana, Johnson County Death: January 28, 1927 (age 75) Burial: Beech Grove Cemetery, Muncie, In Marriage: Winfred Bradey 1897 Children: John Alban Adams (9/10/1900 - 1971), Edward Wolf (11/19/1902 - ?), Robert Brady Adams (7/19/1904 - 1951) Artist Summary Subject Matter: Portraits, Landscapes Artistic Style, Impressionism Art Associations: Hoosier School, Society of Western Artists (1896-1914) Art Education: Wabash College 1871, South Kensington School in London, Royal Academy Munich Germany Art Awards: 1904 - St Louis Exposition for "Iridescence," 1907 - Fine Arts Building prize for "A Snowy Morning" - awarded $500. Biography of John Ottis Adams Early Art Education and Training (1851 to 1880) John Ottis Adams John Ottis Adams was born in the small town of Amity Indiana on July 8th, 1851, to parents Alban Housley and Elizabeth Adams. As a young boy, John attended p