The Hoosier Salon is a non-profit arts organization that was founded in 1925 by a group called the Daughters of Indiana. That year, the Salon hosted an exhibit in the galleries of the Marshall Field and Company Building

Marshall Field and Company Building

Marshall Field and Company Building or Macy's at State Street is the former flagship location of the former Marshall Field's department store and the current location of the Chicago flagship of Macy's...

 in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 featuring Indiana artists such as T.C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams

J. Ottis Adams

J. Ottis Adams was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years....

 and 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:...

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Since then, the Hoosier Salon has sponsored an annual exhibit of Indiana art. In 1940, the exhibition relocated to Indianapolis. Since 1990 it has been shown annually at the Indiana State Museum

Indiana State Museum

The Indiana State Museum is a museum located within White River State Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The museum houses exhibits on the history of Indiana from prehistoric times up to the present day. It has one of the four IMAX theaters in the state of Indiana.-History:The museum was started...

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The Salon has expanded to include three permanent gallery spaces in Indiana, located in Indianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population is 839,489. It is by far Indiana's largest city and, as of the 2010 U.S...

, New Harmony

New Harmony, Indiana

New Harmony is a historic town on the Wabash River in Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana, United States. It lies north of Mount Vernon, the county seat. The population was 916 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Evansville metropolitan area. Many of the old Harmonist buildings still stand...

 and Wabash

Wabash, Indiana

Wabash is a city in Noble Township, Wabash County, Indiana, United States. The population was 10,666 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Wabash County....

. These galleries host over thirty shows each year as well as workshops and demonstrations.

Mission

The Hoosier Salon exists "to create an appreciation of art by promoting Hoosier artists and their art."

Hoosier Salon artists

Since 1925, numerous notable artists have exhibited through the Hoosier Salon. In order to be eligible to exhibit, artists must have lived in Indiana for a minimum of one year at any point during their lives.

• J. Ottis Adams
  J. Ottis Adams
  J. Ottis Adams was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years....
  
  
• Beulah H. Brown
  Beulah H. Brown
  Beulah H. Brown , aka Beulah Elizabeth Hazelrigg Brown, was a gifted Hoosier artist and designer who married one of the Midwest's best known and stylistically expansive Impressionist Artists, Francis Focer Brown.- Biography :...
  
  
• Francis Focer Brown
  Francis Focer Brown
  Francis Focer Brown was a well-known American Impressionist painter, as well as professor and head of the Fine Arts Department at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana from 1925-1957, and Director of the Muncie Art Museum...
  
  
• Gianni Cilfone
  Gianni Cilfone
  Gianni Cilfone was an Italian American artist who emigrated to Chicago at the age of 5 and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Cilforne studied under Hugh Breckenridge and John F. Carlson and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, the North Shore Art Association, the Association of Chicago...
  
  
• Robert Davidson
  Eve (Davidson)
  Eve is an outdoor sculpture created by Robert William Davidson in 1931. It is currently located in the HITS Building at 410 West 10th Street on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis...
  
  
• Frank V. Dudley
  Frank V. Dudley
  Frank V. Dudley was an American landscape painter, known especially for his paintings of scenes in the Indiana Dunes....
  
  
• Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer
  Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer
  Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer was an early 20th Century painter associated with the Richmond Group of artists in Richmond, Indiana.She was born in New Castle, Indiana in 1877, the daughter of architect William S. Kaufman...
  
  
• John Wesley Hardrick
  John Wesley Hardrick
  John Wesley Hardrick was an American artist. He painted landscapes, still lifes and portraits.-Early life and family origins:...
  
  
• Sister Esther Newport
• Ferdinand Louis Schlemmer
• T.C. Steele
• 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:...
  
  
• Gaar Williams
  Gaar Williams
  Gaar Campbell Williams was a prominent American cartoonist who worked for the Indianapolis News and the Chicago Tribune. His scenes of horse-and-buggy days in small towns of the Victorian era included situations taken from memories of his childhood in his hometown of Richmond, Indiana...
  
  
• Antonius Raemaekers