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A Circassian. Munich 1870. Frank Duveneck (American, 1848–1919). Museum of Fine Art Boston digital archives.

George Washington Morrison. b Baltimore, Md 1820. Active in New Albany, Indiana from 1843 to his death in 1893. During that time, he called New Albany home. Morrison earned his reputation as a portrait artist and many of the prominent families in this river town have had their ancestors painted by him. Later in life, and as photography gained in popularity, Morrison focused more upon landscape and still life painting, but interestingly, none of his still life works have yet to be identified. Today, the Carnegie Center for Art and History has fourteen Morrison paintings in its collection and along with the Indiana Room at the New Albany/Floyd County Public Library are the repositories of knowledge on this early and important Indiana artist. For a person who was as well-recognized and regarded in his own time as Morrison was, he has managed to retain an air of mystery about him. Most of the details of his life come through old newspaper clippings and anecdotal recollections of the man by aged George Washington Morrison. b Baltimore, Md 1820. Active in New Albany, Indiana from 1843 to his death in 1893. During that time, he called New Albany home. Morrison earned his reputation as a portrait artist and many of the prominent families in this river town have had their ancestors painted by him. Later in life, and as photography gained in popularity, Morrison focused more upon landscape and still life painting, but interestingly, none of his still life works have yet to be identified. Today, the Carnegie Center for Art and History has fourteen Morrison paintings in its collection and along with the Indiana Room at the New Albany/Floyd County Public Library are the repositories of knowledge on this early and important Indiana artist.

Theodore Clement Steele (September 11, 1847 – July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Steele was an innovator and leader in American Midwest painting and is one of the most famous of Indiana's Hoosier Group painters. In addition to painting, Steele contributed writings, public lectures, and hours of community service on art juries that selected entries for national and international exhibitions, most notably the Universal Exposition (1900) in Paris, France, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was also involved in organizing pioneering art associations, such as the Society of Western Artists. Steele’s work has appeared in a number of prestigious exhibitions, including the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893) in Chicago, Illinois; the Five Hoosier Painters exhibition (1894) in Chicago; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) in Saint Louis; the International Exhibit of Fine Arts (1910) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile; and at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) in San Francisco, California. Steele’s work is widely collected by museums and individuals. His paintings in public collections include those of the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana, among others.

T.C. Steele painting on Indiana University Bloomington campus. A very young Herman B. Wells watching from a distance. Courtesy Indiana University digital archives.

Barton Stone Hays (April 5, 1826 in Greenville, Ohio – March 14, 1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an early Indiana artist and teacher. He was a self-taught artist who was known for his portraits, landscapes and still life paintings. While working in Indiana from 1850 to 1882, Hays taught such important young artists as William Forsyth, John Elwood Bundy and William Merritt Chase. Hays' portrait of Indiana Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison is part of the official collection of portraits of Indiana governors.

T.C. Steele teaching. Fine Arts Department, Indiana University, Bloomington. Courtesy Indiana University digital archives.

Rudolph Ingerle. 1879-1950. Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. Rudolph Ingerle was born in Vienna, Austria, to parents of Moravian descent. At age 12, he moved with his family to Burlington, Wisconsin, and then to Chicago. He attended John Francis Smith’s Art Academy with Walter Dean Goldbeck, an early abstract artist, and took night classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). In contrast to the school’s increasing embrace of modern art, Ingerle maintained a staunchly conservative approach. He was predominately interested in depicting authentic American subjects, especially landscapes, and frequented Indiana’s Brown County from 1907 to 1912, working out of doors with T.C. Steele, Adolf Shulz, Charles Dahlgreen and others. From his home base in Chicago, he traveled extensively, painting not only in Brown County, but also in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where he co-founded the Society of Ozark Painters. He eventually moved to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina in 1925 and became known as the Painter of the Smokies. He was instrumental in persuading the U.S. government to make the Smokies a national park. Courtesy Fine Art and Antiques Magazine.