Indiana Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

 

 

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Indiana Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.

Following the links to Resource Library articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.

Listed after museums are links to online resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.

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(above:  T. C. Steele, The Ohio river from the College Campus, Hanover, 1892, oil, canvas, 66 x 97 cm).  Friends of T.C. Steele*)

Texts contained in Resource Library by named authors listed by author name in alphabetical order:

A Walk in the Woods: The Art of John Elwood Bundy by William H. Gerdts covering the Richmond (Indiana) School

The Departure by Martin Krause (the Hoosier artists)

Indiana Realities: Regionalist Painting 1930-1945 from the Robert L. and Ellen E. Haan Collection by Rachel Berenson Perry

Indiana Women Artists: Then and Now by Rachel Berenson Perry

Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay by Rachel Berenson Perry

200 Years of Indiana Art: A Cultural Legacy by Mark Ruschman

 

Articles contained in Resource Library without named authors listed by article name in alphabetical order:

Creating History: Indiana's Historic Women Artists

Heartland Art: Selections from Your Indiana Collection

The Herron School of Art Centennial: Students and Teachers, 1902-1950

Hoosier Light: The Impressionists of Indiana

Illinois Artists Paintings and Drawings

Making It in the Midwest: Artists Who Chose to Stay

 

(above: Otto Stark, Marie Stark (Mrs. Otto Stark), 1887, oil on board, 20.5 x 17.5 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Gretchen Stark. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

 

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TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

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