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Self Portrait of William Merritt Chase (1915) from the collection of the Richmond Art Museum

The Richmond Art Museum was founded in 1898 as the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana. William Merritt Chase ( November 1, 1849 &ndash October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Year 1898 ( MDCCCXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Richmond (ˈrɪtʃmənd is a city in Wayne Township, Wayne County, in east central Indiana, which borders Ohio. Its collection includes important works of American Impressionists, particularly from the Hoosier Group and the Richmond Group and the Taos School. Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries The Hoosier Group was a group of Indiana Impressionist painters working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries The Richmond Group also known as the Richmond School, is a group of Impressionist Painters who worked in the Richmond Indiana area from the The Taos Art Colony is an Art colony which began in 1898 with the visit of Bert G Important ceramics including a significant collection of the work of the Overbeck Sisters are part of the collection housed in McGuire Memorial Hall at Richmond High School. The Overbeck Sisters were four women potters and artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who worked in Cambridge City Indiana from 1911 until 1955 Richmond High School is a Public high school in Richmond Indiana, located at 380 Hub Etchison Parkway The museum is believed to be the only public art museum connected with a public high school. An icon of the collection is a very large self portrait of the American impressionist William Merritt Chase painted for the museum in 1915-16. Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries William Merritt Chase ( November 1, 1849 &ndash October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of

In addition to important Indiana artists, some of the more important artists represented in the collection are:

William Merritt Chase ( November 1, 1849 &ndash October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Frank Duveneck ( October 9, 1848 &ndash January 3, 1919) was an American figure and portrait painter Henry Mosler ( June 6, 1841 - April 21, 1920) United States Artist, was born in New York, the family removing Walter Shirlaw ( August 6, 1838 &ndash December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American artist William Aiken Walker (1839-1921 is an American artist who was born to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background in Charleston William Wendt (1865-1946 was an American Landscape painter. He was called the "Dean of Southern California landscape painters Charles Courtney Curran (1861 &ndash 1942 was an American painter. William Victor Higgins ( June 28, 1884 - August 23, 1949) was an American painter and teacher, born at Shelbyville Ben Foster may refer to Ben Foster (footballer, English goalkeeper for Manchester United Ben Foster (actor, American actor Robert Lewis Reid ( July 29, 1862 &ndash December 2, 1929) was an American Impressionist painter and Muralist Asher Brown Durand ( August 21, 1796 &ndash September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. Frederick Childe Hassam (b October 17 1859, Dorchester Boston Massachusetts &ndash d Adam Emory Albright (1862 - 1957 was a painter of figures in Landscapes He was born in Monroe Wisconsin and spent his working life in Warrenville Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936 was an artist and founding member of the Taos artists colony in Taos New Mexico. Leonard Ochtman ( October 21, 1854 &ndash 1935 American Impressionist painter, was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands. John Christen Johansen ( November 25, 1876 - June 23, 1964) was a Danish - American portraitist born in Copenhagen Francis Focer Brown (1891 - 1971 was a well known American Impressionist painter, as well as professor and head of the Fine Arts Department at Ball State University Guy Carleton Wiggins ( February 23, 1883 –April 1962 was an American landscape painter son and pupil of Carleton Wiggins. Jane Peterson (1876-1965 was an American artist Notably her work is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Scudder (b October 27 1869, Terre Haute Indiana - d June 9 1940, Rockport Massachusetts) was an American

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