Please join us at the Garrett Museum of Art, located at 100 S. Randolph Street in Garrett, on Friday, February 21, 2020 from 6PM – 8PM to celebrate a very special opening featuring a variety of work by Brown County Artists.
Brown County, Indiana has been a haven for landscape painters since the late 19th century. It became a popular artist colony around 1907 when T.C. Steele, renowned portrait artist, first began to paint in the open air (plein air) of the Brown County forests and hills. Steele, Adolph and Ada Shulz, Gustave Baumann, and many others painted and drew in the Impressionistic style, emphasizing real places and objects coupled with using light and shadow.
The Garrett Museum of Art has purchased a collection of Brown County artworks for our Permanent Collection from a DeKalb County collector. We feel that these collected works are a commitment on our part to preserving an artistic heritage belonging to the state of Indiana. With historic roots as one of America’s original art colonies, and the premiere Midwest colony, the Brown County artists leave their legacy for us to appreciate and enjoy.
Artists of the acquired Brown County collection include: Louis Oscar Griffith, Evelynne Bernloehr Mess, George Mess, Kenneth J. Reeve, Charles Dahlgreen, Oscar B. Erickson, Frederick Polley, and Homer G. Davisson.