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The Hoosier Group was a group of
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painters working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Artists considered members of the Group include
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,
Richard Gruelle Richard Buckner Gruelle (February 22, 1851 – November 8, 1914) was an American Impressionist painter, illustrator, and author, who is best known as one of the five Hoosier Group artists. Gruelle's masterwork is ''The Canal—Morning Effect'' ...
, William Forsyth,
J. Ottis Adams John Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and art educator who is best known as a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana landscape painters, along with William Forsyth, Richard B. Gruelle, Otto S ...
, and Otto Stark. Together they are primarily known for their renditions of the Indiana
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. Although the members of the group had disparate backgrounds and training, the Group gained its cohesion from the determination of the five to attend art school in Munich in the late 1880s. Following their return to Indiana, the group dominated the Indiana art scene through the 1920s. Forsyth, Steele, and Adams taught art at academies in the state and helped spread the group's ethos. Hoosier Group artists all exhibited regularly in the state for several decades thereafter and were instrumental in forming the Society of Western Artists. Following the appearance of Modernism at the 1913
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, the Hoosier Group's visibility and sales declined dramatically. During this period, members of the group were aging and found themselves trapped in what became characterized at that time as an old-fashioned style of painting. Today, the works are highly-collectible and are found in many private and public collections around the United States. A number of collections, primarily in Indiana, include the works of all five. These include:
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, the Shortridge/Indianapolis Public Schools Collection at the
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, the Columbia Club in Indianapolis; Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art in Bloomington; the Richmond Art Museum in
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; David Owsley Museum of Art in Muncie; the Swope Art Museum in
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in Greencastle.


See also

*
Irvington Group The Irvington Group was a group of artists residing in Irvington, a suburb on the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana, during the 1920s and 1930s. This group of artists included some of the most well-known Hoosier artists, such as William Forsyth ...
* Richmond Group


References

* Burnet, Mary Q. Art and Artists of Indiana. New York; The Century Co., 1921. * Gerdts, William H. Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, Vol. 2. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990. * Gerdts, William H. and Newton, Judith Vale. The Hoosier Group: Five American Painters. Indianapolis: Eckert Publications, 1985. * Krause, Martin. The Passage: Return of Indiana Painters from Germany, 1880 – 1905. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1990. * Morton, Elizabeth. "Martinus Andersen and the Hoosier Group of Artists, 1910-15." 1915.
Martinus Andersen and the Hoosier Group of Artists (Working Paper)


External links


Otto Stark Papers
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