Table of Contents

Lenders Sponsors Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: "An American Art Colony" by Rachel Berenson Perry Peaceful Valley The Artists of Brown County 1. T. C. Steele (1847-1926) 2. Will Vawter (1871-1941) 3. Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) 4. Dale Bessire (1892-1974) 5. Frank M. Hohenberger (1876-1963) 6. Adolph Shulz (1869-1963) and Ada Walter Shulz (1870-1928) 7. L. O. Griffith (1875-1956) 8. V. J. Cariani (1891-1969) and Marie Goth (1887-1975) 9. Carl C. Graf (1892-1947) and Genevieve Goth Graf (1890-1961) 10. Edward K. Williams (1870-1950) 11. Georges LaChance (1888-1964) 12. C. Curry Bohm (1894-1971) 13. Glen Cooper Henshaw (1880-1946) 14. Other Artists Afterword Sources

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The remarkable story of a thriving colony of painters and print makers in southern Indiana in the early twentieth century.

About the Author

Lyn Letsinger-Miller, a journalist and former television news producer, is president of the Brown County Art Gallery Foundation. She lives in Nashville, Indiana. Rachel Berenson Perry is Curator of Fine Arts at the Indiana State Museum and author of Children of the Hills: The Life and Work of Ada Walter Shulz and of the introduction to Painting Indiana II: The Changing Face of Agriculture (IUP, 2006). She lives in Nashville, Indiana.

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"With 82 full-color reproductions and a lively, conversational tone, this beautiful book is a joy to read." --Antique Review