The Brown County Art Colony is an artist colony formed in Nashville

Nashville, Indiana

Nashville is a town in Washington Township, Brown County, Indiana, United States. The population was 803 at the 2010 census. The town is the county seat of Brown County and is the county's only incorporated town...

 and Brown County, Indiana

Brown County, Indiana

Brown County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population is 15,242. The county seat is Nashville.- History :...

.

Adolph Shulz is considered to be the founder of the colony, encouraging many Indiana and regional artists to come to Brown County to paint. Though artists such as William McKendree Snyder

William McKendree Snyder

William McKendree Snyder was an American painter active in Indiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries best known for detailed Indiana landscapes. He was one of the first artists to paint in Brown County, Indiana making him a forerunner of the Brown County Art Colony.He was born in Liberty,...

 had been coming to Brown county as early as 1870, the colony is considered to have been firmly established in 1907 when the noted painter T. C. Steele

T. C. Steele

Theodore Clement Steele was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes.Theodore Steele's paintings are in many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington,...

 moved there. The dean of Indiana painters, Steele built a home and studio on a large plot of land west of Nashville near Belmont

Belmont, Indiana

Belmont is an unincorporated town in Washington Township, Brown County, Indiana.Belmont was originally the settlement of the Shakers, who quickly died out. However, they left the bell from their church. The bell went with the land in the government auction. The bell remained until 1920 by that...

 and made it his permanent home. Its proximity to Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

 in Bloomington allowed Steele to accept a position as artist in residence

Artist in residence

Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....

 there in 1922.

An art association was incorporated in 1926 with Carl Graf as the first president. In 1954, the two associations split into two organizations: The Brown County Art Gallery and Museum and The Brown County Art Guild. Both organizations continue to maintain galleries in Nashville in which art created by the early artists is displayed along with the art of contemporary members which is for sale.

Some of the noted Brown County artists include:

• T. C. Steele
  T. C. Steele
  Theodore Clement Steele was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes.Theodore Steele's paintings are in many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington,...
  
  
• Gustave Baumann
  Gustave Baumann
  Gustave Baumann was a printmaker and painter, and one of the leading figures of the color woodcut revival in America. His works have been shown at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the New Mexico Museum of Art...
  
  
• Anthony Buchta
• Patty Bartels
• Dale Bessire
• C. Carey Cloud
• Georges LaChance
• Edwin Fulwider
• Adrian J. Miller
• Marie Goth
• V. J. Cariani
• Carl Graf
• Dale Cassiday
• Leota Loop
• C. Curry Bohm
• Chelsea Noggle
• Will Vawter
  Will Vawter
  John William Vawter , from Greenfield, Indiana, was an American landscape artist and illustrator known for his loose Impressionist style. -Early life and education:...
  
  
• L. O. Griffith
• Glen Cooper Henshaw
• William Zimmerman

External links

• Brown County Art Guild
• http://www.browncountyartgallery.org/