Michael Burns Art

Artist:  Fredrick Nelson Vance Birth: 1880 Birth City:  Crawfordsville, IN Birth County:  Montgomery Death: 9-21-1926 Death City:1880 Burial: Married:  Children: Artist Summary Subject Matter: Media:  Oil Painting Art Associations: League of American Artists in London, Indiana Artist Club, Allied Artists of America in Paris, and the Alliance Francaise in Indianapolis. A charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association. Art Awards : Art Exhibitions:  HoosierSalon, Art Institute of Chicago Biography of Fredrick Nelson Vance Son of George Vance, a mural decorator. Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Julian Colorossi and Vitti Academies in Paris, Smith Academy in Chicago. Served in France and Italy during World War I. In 1912 was in charge of the art school in Terre Haute, Indiana. He built his home in Brown County in 1925 with a 22 X 30 studio. At the opening of the Brown County Art Gallery in October 1926, the first painting sold was a lands

Artist:  Leota Loop Birth:  October 26th, 1893 Birth City:  Fountain City, IN Death:  September 9th, 1961 Death City:  Indianapolis, IN Burial:  Greenlawn Cemetary, Nashville, IN. Married: Glen Loop in 1914 Children:   Max Wiliam Loop (b. 1916, d. 2008) 2nd Marriage  Charles Jewell Known For: Floral Still Lifes Artist Summary Formal Training:  Subject Matter: Floral Still Life, Landscape, Snowscene Media:  Oil Art Associations:  Indiana Artists Club, Hoosier Salon, Kokomo Art Students League, American Artist Professional League,  Brown County Art Gallery Association Art Awards:  Purchase Prize 1941, Artists League of Northern Indiana Exhibition 1929 First Prize for Flower Painting and Popular Prize, Purchase Prize 1930, First Prize Flowers and Oils 1946, Margaret Bridwell Memorial Prize 1939, Second Prize Flowers and Oil 1946, Second Prize Flowers and Oil 1953 Art Exhibitions: Hoosier Salon Biography of Leota Loop Studied under William Forsyth, T. C. Steele

Artist:  Fred Rigley Birth:  July 1st, 1914 Birth City  Owasso, Michigan Birth County: Death:  March 22nd, 2009, Death City:  Nashville In. Burial Married:  Mary Jeannette Greene Children:  Joan, Ellen Artist Summary Formal Training: Ringling School of Art, Arts Students League New York Subject Matter:  Landscapes Media: Art Associations:  Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artist  Club, Brown County Art Gallery Association, Brown Art Awards: Art Exhibitions: Known For: Seascape and Landscapes Biography of Fred Rigley Fred Rigley Indiana artist studied at the Ringling School of Art, Hilton Leach School of Art in Sarasota, FL Studied under Emile A. Gruppe, John F. Carlson, and Floyd Hopper First discovered Brown county as a student by driving Alberta Shultz's car back to Nashville from Florida. Moved to Brown County in 1948 from Gloucester, MA Opened Rigley Studios and an art supply and framing store Taught Landscape painting with the Indianapolis Art League for 25 ye

Birth: 10-10-1875, Greencastle, In Death: 11-13-1956, Franklin, In Married: Carolyn Maulsby in 1920 Known For: Etchings but also painted landscapes Associations:  Chicago Society of Etchers, Indiana Artists Club, Indiana Society of Print Makers of America, Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago Society of Printers and Sculptors, Charter member Brown County Art Gallery Association and Brown County Art Guild Awards: Hoosier Salon, Palette and Chisel Club gold medal in 1921, The Daughters of Indiana prize in 1925, Chicago Society of Etchers prizes in 1949 and 1953, Bronze Medal Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco 1915 Facts Studied at the St Louis School of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design and in New York, Paris and England Became a full resident of Brown County around 1922 Built a house and studio next to Will Vawter in 1924 Served on Nashville, In. town council Most of his printmaking was done in the winter months and

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 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 Studied portrait painting and sculptor for seven years Worked as a cartoonist after high school for the Bedford Daily Democrat Met Varaldo J. Cariani while on the East Coast Took camping trips to paint Brown County Built a home and studio and frame shop outside of Nashville in 1925 Met and married Genevieve Goth Graf, Marie Goth’s sister Built a home and studio east of Nashville, IN. The first president of the Brown Co

Birth: 8-15-1887, Indianapolis, IN. Death: 1-9-1975, Nashville,IN. Married: Never Known For: Portraits and Still Life Birth: 8-15-1887, Indianapolis, IN. Death: 1-9-1975, Nashville,IN. Married: Never Known For: Portraits and Still Life Associations: National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Indiana Artists Club Charter member of the Brown County Art gallery Association and the Brown County Art Guild Awards: 1909 Art Students League Facts Studied at John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, IN. and at the Student Art League in New York City Studied under William Merritt Chase, Frank V Dumond, William Merritt Chase, Robert Aiken, F Luis Mora Moved to Nashville Indiana in 1923 A talented portrait painter who became the first woman to paint a portrait of the Indiana Governor Mari and V. J Cariani were lifelong friends V. J had a cabin next to Marie Active in the Brown County Art Gallery from 1926 to 1924 Active i

Birth: 1877 New Castle, IN Death:  12-1-1959 Ashville North Carolina Married: Elmer E Eggemeyer Known For:  garden landscape, floral still life Associations: Richmond Palette club (founder 1925), Hoosier Salon Patrons Association, Richmond Art Association:  Chicago Galleries Association, Womens Art Club of Cincinnati Awards: Richmond Art Museum Meritorious Poster Design, Richmond Fall Festival 1909 best garden scene, Best Block Print 1930 Hoosier Salon Facts Studied at Earlham College in Richmond IN and under J. Ottis Adams and John Elwood Bundy an Indiana Art Academy of Cincinnati Father was an Architect Maude's Husband was the postmaster of Richmond Founded the Richmond Palette Club Traveled extensively painting gardens of wealthy Dayton Ohio families Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm

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 

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,