Exploring Indiana: Bloomington and Brown County
Last weekend, we slept in the fifteenth bed in six weeks, visited the 27th town at home and abroad in three months. We drove south from Crawfordsville to Bloomington, Indiana to visit a dear friend and graduate school colleague with whom we also visited Terre Haute, Nazareth Pantaloni. Naz took us to visit the T.C. Steele State Historic Site in Brown County. Brown County is today considered the art colony of the midwest, but in the early twentieth century, T.C. Steele was the first artist to make Brown County his home. Steele was one of the first of the “Hoosier group” of American impressionists. He had studied in Germany in the style of the Old Masters, but explored the impressionist style of painting first in Indianapolis and then in Brown County (the theme of the urbanites coming to the country and not understanding the rural ways and not being understood by the countryfolk is a recurring one in the docent’s spiel). Read more
The Trott Line 