The Richmond Art Museum was founded in 1898 as the Art Association of
Richmond, Indiana
Richmond is a city in eastern Wayne County, Indiana. Bordering the state of Ohio, it is the county seat of Wayne County and is part of the Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,812. Situa ...
. Artist
John Elwood Bundy and author and attorney
William Dudley Foulke were instrumental in the founding.
Permanent collection
Its collection includes important works of
American Impressionists
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
, particularly from the
Hoosier Group, the
Richmond Group and the
Taos School. 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 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
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose b ...
William Merritt Chase painted for the museum in 1915-16.
Some of the more important artists represented in the collection are:
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William Merritt Chase
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Frank Duveneck
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Henry Mosler
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Walter Shirlaw
Walter Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 26, 1909) was a Scottish-American artist.''Dictionary of American Biography'' (1936) Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Biography
Shirlaw was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States ...
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William Aiken Walker
William Aiken Walker (March 11, 1839 – January 3, 1921) was an American artist best known for genre paintings of black sharecroppers. He also documented the American Civil War era during his service in the Confederate Army.
Walker was born t ...
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William Wendt
William Wendt (February 20, 1865, Bentzen, Kingdom of Prussia – December 29, 1946, Laguna Beach) was a German-born American landscape painter. He was called the "Dean of Southern California landscape painters."
*Bronze Medal, Buffalo Expositi ...
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Charles Courtney Curran
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William Victor Higgins
* Ben Foster
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Robert Reid
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Asher Durand
Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796, – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School.
Early life
Durand was born in, and eventually died in, Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village). He was the eighth ...
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Childe Hassam
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Adam Emory Albright
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E. Irving Couse
Eanger Irving Couse (September 3, 1866 – April 26, 1936) was an American artist and a founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists. Born and reared in Saginaw, Michigan, he went to New York City and Paris to study art. Wh ...
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Leonard Ochtman
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John Christen Johansen
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Francis Focer Brown
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Guy Carleton Wiggins
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Jane Peterson
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Janet Scudder
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Paul Weber
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Harry Mills Walcott
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Albert Lorey Groll
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Gordon Grant
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Louis Betts
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De Scott Evans
De Scott Evans (March 28, 1847 – July 4, 1898) was an American painter known for working in a number of genres. Raised in Indiana, he spent much of his career in Ohio and then moved to New York City. His posthumous reputation is largely b ...
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Marcus Mote
Marcus Mote (1817 — February 26, 1898) was a Quaker artist who worked in Ohio and Indiana.
Biography
Mote was born in West Milton, Ohio in 1817. In 1844 he moved to Lebanon, Ohio where he established a studio. He worked there as an itinera ...
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Frederick Judd Waugh
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Wayman Elbridge Adams
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Aminah Robinson
External links
Official Site
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Art museums and galleries in Indiana
Art museums established in 1898
Museums in Richmond, Indiana
1898 establishments in Indiana