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Top Selling T. C. Steele Painting Sells For $65,000 The September 6th, 2015 Indiana art auction started off with an excellent 25" x 38" Theodore Clement (1847 to 1926) oil on canvas depicting a woodland pathway.  The painting was signed lower right and reached a high bid of $65,000.  Another Steele oil painting measuring 22" x 32" was not signed but had an estate stamp on the back of the painting. Due to the lack of a signature, the painting only reached a final sale price of $5,000. Gustave Baumann Woodblock Print $4,250 Offered to collectors of well-known printmaker Gustave Baumann (June 27, 1881, to October 1971), was a beautiful 10" x 12" colored woodblock print signed lower right, and 52 out of 125. Born in Magdeburg, Germany, Gustave's parents moved to the United States when he was 10 years old. At the age of 23, in 1904, Gustave returned to Germany to attend the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, where he studied wood carving and learned woo

T. C. Steele Painting Sells at Auction for $22,500 T. C. Steele Painting $22,500 The June 4th, 2015 art auction hosted by Jackson Auction and Real Estate Company in Indianapolis included a very nice selection of Hoosier Group artwork and other well known Indiana artists totaling 154 pieces of art being offered for sale. The first painting of the day was by Theodore Clement Steele (1847 to 1926) with the estate stamp verso. Although not titled by the artist anyone who has visited the T.C. Steele State Historic Site and toured the home would recognize the fireplace and books in the living room. If you are interested in Indiana art and Steele, who was one of the most well known Indiana artists of the time, the historic site is well worth the visit. The tour of the studio and house provide the opportunity to view many paintings from his time in Munich and more impressionistic works. The oil painting that sold measured 18x22 and sold for $22,500. Born July 7, 1914, Ruth Bernice And

Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer Painting sells for $11,000 A painting by Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer (1/09/1877 to 12/1/1959) was the top seller in the first Jackson art auction of 2015. Maude was born in Richmond, Indiana, and studied under the well-known Richmond Group artist John Elwood Bundy while at Earlham Cottage. She was the first woman to receive a scholarship to the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1904, where she was taught by Frank Duveneck and Lewis Henry Meakin. Maude and her husband lived in Richmond, Indiana, in a house designed by her architect father.  After the suicide death of her husband, she stopped painting and went to live with her sister in Asheville, North Carolina. The Oil on Canvas painting measured 16" x 19", signed lower left, reached a final bid of $11,000 with an auction estimate of $15,000 - $25,000. Born 1883, Wayman Adams grew up on a farm in Albany, Indiana, with his amateur artist father. With no formal education past grade school, he eventually enrolled

Top Selling Painting by Harry Davis reaches a final bid of $7,000 The top-selling oil painting at the 2014 November art auction in Indianapolis was a 20x16 Oil painting from artist Harry Allen Davis (1914 – 2006) that reached a final bid of $7,000.  Harry earned a fine arts degree from the Herron School of art in 1938 and in the same year, won the coveted Prix de Rome in painting. The scholarship allowed him to continue his studies at the American Academy in Rome and travel around Europe sketching and painting to refine his skills. In 1942 Harry enlisted in the Army designing camouflage in North Africa and later assigned as a combat artist with the Fifth Army Historical Unit in Italy. After serving in Italy from 1944 to 1946, Harry returned to the US and taught at the Herron School of Art.  Teaching there until he retired in 1983. Two other Harry Davis paintings were offered to bidders, including a 16x24 painting titled “Drilling Rig,” which brought $1,100.  The other titled “In Dry