WEBVTT 00:00:00.674 --> 00:00:07.129 - to another program with the McGill County History Club. It's a beautiful day for a program, I think. 00:00:07.129 --> 00:00:13.585 - My name's Michael Carter. Welcome to my field of what I call that. My brother, Steve, and my cousin. 00:00:13.585 --> 00:00:19.977 - And a lot of my old bloomin' in high school classmates are here too, here and there. I do mean old. 00:00:19.977 --> 00:00:26.496 - Let's sheet some paper on all the tables for you to share amongst yourselves. It's just a list of all 00:00:26.496 --> 00:00:27.966 - the upcoming programs. 00:00:28.674 --> 00:00:36.571 - the history club going all the way into next year, barring cancellations, of course, which happens sometimes. 00:00:36.571 --> 00:00:44.324 - Many thanks to the Red Collegiate for allowing us to have these programs. We've been partners in presenting 00:00:44.324 --> 00:00:51.574 - and preserving local history for over 13 years now. And thanks to the white staff in the kitchen who 00:00:51.574 --> 00:00:56.958 - do such a great job every time. Amanda and Misty are our waitresses today. 00:00:58.882 --> 00:01:06.110 - and be generous with them. I'd also like to thank CATS TV, of course, for recording our programs for 00:01:06.110 --> 00:01:13.480 - over 10 years. Justin is our camera guy today. Hi, Justin. This is a very important service. It allows 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:20.637 - us to upload each program to YouTube for people who can't make it to live programs. In addition, it 00:01:20.637 --> 00:01:28.222 - allows us to preserve our local history for future generations. We have over 120 programs on YouTube now. 00:01:28.578 --> 00:01:36.880 - So you can find them real easily. Just go to YouTube and put Monroe County History Club in the search 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:45.263 - engine, and it goes right to it. So how many new attendees do we have today? Any new ones? I don't see 00:01:45.263 --> 00:01:53.564 - anybody. If you want to leave your email address with us for our direct email stuff that where you're 00:01:53.564 --> 00:01:58.366 - not on Facebook and stuff, you can leave that if you want. 00:01:58.562 --> 00:02:08.268 - We don't sell it or anything. Many thanks to Steve Brewer, who helps me with all the tech stuff and 00:02:08.268 --> 00:02:18.750 - sends out all our emails every month. So thanks a lot, Steve. Now a word from Daniel Schlegel, the director 00:02:18.750 --> 00:02:24.574 - of the History Center. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. 00:02:24.802 --> 00:02:31.297 - I'm very excited. I finally remembered to bring the quarter sheets that have our garage sale fundraiser. 00:02:31.297 --> 00:02:37.607 - So I brought plenty of them. So please make sure to stop by the table over here to my left. They have 00:02:37.607 --> 00:02:43.916 - the new address in Ellisville for the garage sale. So feel free to grab one of these. The garage sale 00:02:43.916 --> 00:02:50.287 - ladies are working very hard on the move and resetting up the new space. I do not have a donation date 00:02:50.287 --> 00:02:52.638 - yet. That is a very popular question. 00:02:53.122 --> 00:02:59.328 - that people have contacted us about. We do not yet know, but as soon as I know, I'll make sure I put 00:02:59.328 --> 00:03:05.779 - that out, and I will announce it here for anyone interested. I have a lot of new items. A local reporter 00:03:05.779 --> 00:03:12.046 - stopped in and caught me right before I left, so I'm a little late setting up, but I will set that up 00:03:12.046 --> 00:03:18.436 - momentarily. So I have some new stuff out there. And then the only other thing I have for today is this 00:03:18.436 --> 00:03:19.358 - coming Friday, 00:03:20.162 --> 00:03:27.849 - at 4 o'clock at the Monroe County Airport is a state historical marker honoring Lieutenant Gary Kisters 00:03:27.849 --> 00:03:35.463 - from Bloomington. He was the first World War II vet that received both the Distinguished Service Cross 00:03:35.463 --> 00:03:42.855 - and the Medal of Honor. And so there was a big parade for him and everything downtown. And so a lot 00:03:42.855 --> 00:03:48.990 - of people still remember the store. I'm sorry, he had a daycare center, one of our 00:03:49.122 --> 00:03:54.384 - Folks normally hear Justin. It was his uncle. So we've heard a lot of great stories about Uncle Gary, 00:03:54.384 --> 00:03:59.544 - as he calls him. But the marker dedication is this Friday. It is free and open to the public. So if 00:03:59.544 --> 00:04:04.703 - you enjoy history or want to know a little bit more about World War II history, please make sure to 00:04:04.703 --> 00:04:10.068 - come out and visit us. And I do have some more of these flyers. If anybody would like with them, I just 00:04:10.068 --> 00:04:15.331 - have them over here right where I'll be. So thank you, everyone. And if you haven't signed up for the 00:04:15.331 --> 00:04:16.414 - email, please do so. 00:04:16.674 --> 00:04:23.206 - I think I get all of three emails a month from them. One is a reminder, one to say, hey, this is going 00:04:23.206 --> 00:04:29.674 - on the next day. And then they always let me know when the video is uploaded from the previous month, 00:04:29.674 --> 00:04:36.206 - which is always nice, because every now and then I'll miss one of these. But it's nice just to be able 00:04:36.206 --> 00:04:42.992 - to put that on and listen to the history that happened. So have a great day, and thanks, everyone. Thanks, 00:04:42.992 --> 00:04:44.958 - Daniel. And now Charlie Aiken. 00:04:45.442 --> 00:04:54.643 - from the Civil War roundtable. There's a few words to share with you. Thank you, Mike. Yeah, I put some 00:04:54.643 --> 00:05:03.491 - of these on the tables. Some of you didn't get them. I have extras. When you go get that stuff from 00:05:03.491 --> 00:05:12.516 - Daniel, you can pick up a couple of these things if you need them. Because a couple of things on here 00:05:12.516 --> 00:05:14.462 - are talking about the 00:05:14.914 --> 00:05:25.425 - the history of the Civil War Roundtable. Founded in 2005, makes about as old as this outfit. And among 00:05:25.425 --> 00:05:35.834 - the founders mentioned is Steve Rolfe. Many of you knew Steve. And Mark Akersworth was also involved. 00:05:35.834 --> 00:05:43.998 - And he has all of the classes that he taught. Briefly, the Civil War Roundtable 00:05:45.058 --> 00:05:55.357 - As it says on the sheet, it's not just the Civil War in Monroe County, because there wasn't any, really. 00:05:55.357 --> 00:06:05.460 - Nothing happened. The closest we got was Morgan's raid. That was across the southern part of the state 00:06:05.460 --> 00:06:14.974 - of Indiana. But on this sheet here, they mention some of the lectures that were given over time. 00:06:15.266 --> 00:06:23.375 - And one of them was the story about Morgan's raid. And a couple of things about that. The best thing 00:06:23.375 --> 00:06:31.565 - about it, though, there's a possibility that Morgan drank from the old oak and bucket. Because one of 00:06:31.565 --> 00:06:39.754 - the stops that his raiders made was at the farm in southeastern Indiana, where the old oak and bucket 00:06:39.754 --> 00:06:45.214 - came from. It's doubtful that he did, but the possibility is there. 00:06:45.410 --> 00:06:53.504 - Some of his men did, certainly. Another little branch group went by. So that was kind of neat. Another 00:06:53.504 --> 00:07:01.362 - thing about this Wiley lecture, I'll say more later, but again, if you're heavy into the Civil War, 00:07:01.362 --> 00:07:09.299 - these names will mean a lot to you. But otherwise, they're just a lot of good people. But this Edwin 00:07:09.299 --> 00:07:14.878 - C. Beers, he talked about Indiana at Antietam, the Battle of Antietam. 00:07:15.458 --> 00:07:28.446 - and gave a lecture on that. This guy, he could give a narrative of the entire Civil War. Give him enough 00:07:28.446 --> 00:07:40.816 - time, he could tell you all the dates, the bells, everything. So we get people of that caliber. But 00:07:40.816 --> 00:07:45.022 - another thing about this, Monroe, 00:07:45.602 --> 00:07:55.825 - that the program we have coming up that shows how the diversity, we don't just talk about the big battles, 00:07:55.825 --> 00:08:05.666 - Gettysburg and Vicksburg and Teetum, some of the minor stuff. So just a quick outline of what's coming 00:08:05.666 --> 00:08:13.214 - up in the next few months. And again, we meet once a month, the third Tuesday. 00:08:13.730 --> 00:08:24.148 - In September, the great grandson of this soldier from Ohio, the soldier kept his diary and wrote letters. 00:08:24.148 --> 00:08:33.977 - His great grandson compiled all these things into a book, and he's going to be the presentation for 00:08:33.977 --> 00:08:42.430 - September. October, the topic is women in the Civil War. I'm looking forward to this. 00:08:42.754 --> 00:08:50.616 - if it's wives and mothers and sweethearts on the home front, or if it's about nurses, or some of the 00:08:50.616 --> 00:08:58.634 - best spies on both sides were women. And also on both sides were women disguised themselves as men and 00:08:58.634 --> 00:09:06.496 - joined the armies and fought some of the battles. So I'm kind of looking forward to seeing which one 00:09:06.496 --> 00:09:10.622 - they got in mind. And then another, those are my two 00:09:11.906 --> 00:09:19.466 - Two speakers that were bringing in. But then the next one in November will be baseball in the Civil 00:09:19.466 --> 00:09:27.176 - War. And one of the members of the group is going to give that talk. Because baseball got started. It 00:09:27.176 --> 00:09:34.812 - was a way to relieve the boredom of camps. And then baseball spread as they all went home and helped 00:09:34.812 --> 00:09:41.086 - spread the baseball. December is our Christmas dinner. That's sort of an open mic. 00:09:41.570 --> 00:09:49.931 - where if you got something you want to share, you share it. Some have pictures and slides and videos 00:09:49.931 --> 00:09:58.458 - and fancy stuff. Others just get up and talk. In January, about the draft riots in New York, that came 00:09:58.458 --> 00:10:06.819 - up because many of the members, they have ancestors that were in the Civil War. None of my ancestors 00:10:06.819 --> 00:10:10.462 - came over until after the Civil War, except 00:10:10.658 --> 00:10:19.785 - my dad's mother's side. And they were Irish in New York. And I have no proof, but I'm quite certain 00:10:19.785 --> 00:10:28.272 - they took part in the drafts rights. It was largely Irish people in New York doing all that. 00:10:28.272 --> 00:10:37.490 - And as I said, we meet at 7 PM on the third Thursday, except in July and August, where we don't have 00:10:37.490 --> 00:10:38.494 - a program. 00:10:39.266 --> 00:10:47.128 - We usually meet at the history center, but we have a couple of exceptions. For one, we have a specialist 00:10:47.128 --> 00:10:55.065 - deal at the IU archives, of all things. And the archivist is hiding over here at the end of the building, 00:10:55.065 --> 00:11:02.628 - because they have a lot of stuff about people from IU that have journals and diaries and things, and 00:11:02.628 --> 00:11:08.094 - they compile all that. We also have a meeting at the Hardbreech Brewery, 00:11:08.738 --> 00:11:17.451 - They're on North College. I'm getting signals. Because the subject was alcohol in the Civil War, so 00:11:17.451 --> 00:11:26.599 - we had it at a brewery where we had our meeting. Last thing, the fifth Tuesday is mentioned here. That's 00:11:26.599 --> 00:11:35.573 - where two or three times a year, there's five Tuesdays in a month. So those extra Tuesdays, we started 00:11:35.573 --> 00:11:38.622 - having book reviews, and now we've 00:11:38.914 --> 00:11:48.248 - We're going to have one this in September about movies and how they're portrayed, the Civil War is portrayed 00:11:48.248 --> 00:11:56.897 - in the movies. Some of you may have noticed, besides my taking so long, is that the fifth Tuesday is 00:11:56.897 --> 00:12:05.547 - automatically the last Tuesday of the month. What else happens on the last Tuesday of the month? OK, 00:12:05.547 --> 00:12:08.030 - so you make a big day of it. 00:12:08.226 --> 00:12:17.080 - You come here for lunch and all that. And then in the evening, you go to the Harvard Brewery. And you 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:25.760 - don't have to read the book to join in. Just go there and have a good time. Anyway, on the handout, 00:12:25.760 --> 00:12:34.527 - there's a senior moment. Anyway, there's a contact point if you want more on here. And thank you for 00:12:34.527 --> 00:12:36.350 - your kind attention. 00:12:42.306 --> 00:12:48.515 - Thanks, Charlie. That brings us to the program today. The name of the program is what did TC Steel have 00:12:48.515 --> 00:12:54.904 - to do with the Indiana University? It turns out quite a bit. And just to talk about that, we would welcome 00:12:54.904 --> 00:13:00.993 - Jessica Stevens here today, site manager of the TC Steel State Historic Site and State Historic Sites 00:13:00.993 --> 00:13:06.964 - program manager for the Indiana State Museum in Historic Sites. And she can tell us all about this. 00:13:06.964 --> 00:13:08.158 - All right, Jessica? 00:13:23.714 --> 00:13:34.131 - Can you guys hear me? Okay. All right, so. Closer? Is that better? Okay. So I'm here to tell you about 00:13:34.131 --> 00:13:44.346 - TC Steel and Indiana University. But I will fill in the gaps for you today. So I can't tell you just 00:13:44.346 --> 00:13:50.718 - about TC and IU without there being a lot of questions raised. 00:13:50.978 --> 00:14:00.243 - So I will tell you additional information. This topic is kind of dear to my heart. I was an undergrad 00:14:00.243 --> 00:14:10.053 - at Indiana University as well as a grad student there. I spent many nights at the IMU studying under a T.C. 00:14:10.053 --> 00:14:15.230 - Steele painting. So it's kind of full circle for me. OK. 00:14:15.714 --> 00:14:29.548 - So Theodore Clement Steele was born on September 11, 1847. He was the oldest of five boys. And he was 00:14:29.548 --> 00:14:37.822 - the son of a farmer and a leather worker. So he will, sorry. 00:14:38.018 --> 00:14:46.634 - Harriet and Samuel will move their family when TC is five years old to Waveland, Indiana. And they do 00:14:46.634 --> 00:14:55.251 - this because they want them to have a really good education. They were educated themselves and wanted 00:14:55.251 --> 00:14:59.390 - them to go to the Waveland Collegiate Institute. 00:14:59.778 --> 00:15:08.285 - When he's five, they will move. When he's 12, he will get his first art instruction at the Waveland 00:15:08.285 --> 00:15:17.132 - Institute. By the time he's 13, just a year later, he will be teaching those art classes. So very early 00:15:17.132 --> 00:15:25.214 - trajectory into his career in the arts field. By the time he is 14, his father will pass away. 00:15:25.410 --> 00:15:34.448 - leaving him as the man of the household. However, Harriet was still adamant that he can continue with 00:15:34.448 --> 00:15:43.664 - his education and he would farm also. And he had all those experiences. But while he's farming, he will 00:15:43.664 --> 00:15:52.702 - talk about how he would put ribbons on the equipment and watch how they change color in the light. So 00:15:52.702 --> 00:15:55.006 - always very interested in 00:15:55.362 --> 00:16:04.442 - you know, color and art. When he's 16, he will have completed 40 oil paintings of family and friends. 00:16:04.442 --> 00:16:13.700 - And he will know at an early age that he should be studying art in Europe. He will get some instruction 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:19.486 - from Cincinnati and Chicago, but Europe is where he needs to be. 00:16:22.946 --> 00:16:30.519 - In 1870, he will marry Libby Lakin. They will have three children together that will survive into adulthood. 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:37.744 - Rembrandt, you might imagine where he got that name, his very favorite artist. They'll call him Brandt. 00:16:37.744 --> 00:16:44.414 - And then there's Margaret, they'll call her Daisy. And then the youngest son's name is Shirley. 00:16:45.442 --> 00:16:53.965 - By all accounts, he was a very loving and present father and husband. They would read stories together 00:16:53.965 --> 00:17:02.239 - in the evenings, and they would play musical instruments together. They were a very musical family. 00:17:02.239 --> 00:17:10.761 - TC could play the flute, and Daisy played the piano, and Shirley played the piano and the cello. While 00:17:10.761 --> 00:17:12.830 - they're in Indianapolis, 00:17:13.154 --> 00:17:22.540 - Steele will befriend a man named Herman Lieber. Herman was a gallery owner and a frame maker, so he 00:17:22.540 --> 00:17:32.208 - was a good contact for TC Steele. He'll ask TC, what do you need to get your art to the level you want 00:17:32.208 --> 00:17:41.406 - it to get to? TC will say, I need to be in either Paris, France, or Munich, Germany studying art. 00:17:42.018 --> 00:17:53.018 - Lieber and 12 other businessmen in Indianapolis will send TC Steel to the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany 00:17:53.018 --> 00:18:03.709 - to study art. There was a contract drawn up where TC would stay one to two years and then return, repay 00:18:03.709 --> 00:18:10.494 - the businessmen in portraits or in paintings he did while abroad. 00:18:12.386 --> 00:18:23.070 - Something to remember is that T.C. Steel is 33 years old by now. He has a wife and three children, and 00:18:23.070 --> 00:18:33.442 - they are moving overseas with him. So he's in Munich. He's studying, and a year will pass. And T.C. 00:18:33.442 --> 00:18:35.102 - Steel will say, 00:18:36.162 --> 00:18:44.129 - to Herman Lieber if I just had a little more time. And so they will extend his stay. They'll throw in 00:18:44.129 --> 00:18:52.253 - a little bit more money and expand his stay another year. Another year passes, and TC writes to Herman, 00:18:52.253 --> 00:19:00.220 - you know, if I just had a little more time. And this time, TC will send home paintings so that Herman 00:19:00.220 --> 00:19:06.078 - can sell these paintings in his business and finance the rest of his trip. 00:19:07.714 --> 00:19:17.824 - At the Royal Academy, you would expect to spend eight years if you are going in this art academy. But 00:19:17.824 --> 00:19:28.132 - Steele was able to test out of many, many classes due to his extensive portfolio. In Munich, he learned 00:19:28.132 --> 00:19:35.070 - the academic realist technique known as gray manner. You might guess. 00:19:35.874 --> 00:19:44.327 - what we mean by that. There's a lot of gray tones in those paintings up there. And they were really 00:19:44.327 --> 00:19:52.781 - interested in subdued colors, but also light and dramatic shadows, things like that, similar to the 00:19:52.781 --> 00:19:55.486 - old masters, such as Rembrandt. 00:19:56.450 --> 00:20:05.648 - In 1884, he will create the Boatman that you can see here. It was part of his student exhibition painting 00:20:05.648 --> 00:20:14.759 - for the Academy. This painting reflects his early academic training. The painting's craftsmanship earned 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:23.870 - Steele a silver medal. Today, the Boatman is part of the collection at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at IU. 00:20:26.690 --> 00:20:35.968 - On the left is a painting of the cloisters where Steele and his family lived part of their time while 00:20:35.968 --> 00:20:45.154 - in Germany. This painting usually hangs in the Tudor Room inside the Indiana Memorial Union. You may 00:20:45.154 --> 00:20:53.886 - recognize it if you've been there. So Steele will study in Munich from 18 to 1885 where he will 00:20:54.114 --> 00:21:06.230 - graduates in under four years. But while he is there, he was following around a man named J. Frank Currier. 00:21:06.230 --> 00:21:17.448 - Currier was a Boston native, and he was interested in painting out of doors in plain air. So he had 00:21:17.448 --> 00:21:21.150 - an unofficial school there where 00:21:21.346 --> 00:21:30.292 - 15 to 20 American art students would follow him around. T.C. Seale was one of them. So he would always, 00:21:30.292 --> 00:21:38.894 - when he was younger, he always wanted extra time to devote to landscape painting. And here, this is 00:21:38.894 --> 00:21:44.830 - when he gets that. This is when he falls in love with the landscape. 00:21:49.698 --> 00:21:59.087 - to bear the name the Indiana School of Art was opened by T.C. Steele in 1889. So he comes home from 00:21:59.087 --> 00:22:08.476 - Munich because he believes that Indiana is just as beautiful as any European landscape. And this is 00:22:08.476 --> 00:22:15.518 - sort of rare because during this time Americans studying abroad might stay 00:22:15.618 --> 00:22:25.164 - abroad or go to the East Coast where they can make a lot more money. That was not true for the Hoosier 00:22:25.164 --> 00:22:34.524 - artists. So another Hoosier artist William Forsythe will join him at the school and he will serve as 00:22:34.524 --> 00:22:42.494 - a director until the Art Association takes over the management of the school in 1891. 00:22:42.818 --> 00:22:54.357 - Steele will continue to teach though until 1895. In 1893, Steele will first encounter Impressionist 00:22:54.357 --> 00:23:06.242 - paintings in person. We assume that he probably has seen reproductions of Impressionist paintings, but 00:23:06.242 --> 00:23:11.550 - this is his first time seeing them in person. 00:23:12.194 --> 00:23:20.272 - This was at the Chicago World's Fair. He will exhibit next to notable French Impressionist painters 00:23:20.272 --> 00:23:28.430 - such as Claude Monet. September is one of the paintings that he had in the World's Fair. And he will 00:23:28.430 --> 00:23:36.750 - have a quote, and I didn't write it down, but I think it's important. When people are saying, wow, you 00:23:36.750 --> 00:23:41.758 - must be an Impressionist painter, you're exhibiting alongside 00:23:42.370 --> 00:23:49.821 - you know, Claude Monet, he will say, if impressionism is being outside painting what I see, then I am 00:23:49.821 --> 00:23:57.126 - an impressionist painter. So this painting was in the Chicago World's Fair. If you're interested in 00:23:57.126 --> 00:24:04.431 - seeing it in person, you can do that right now for the next few weeks. It is up at the Brown County 00:24:04.431 --> 00:24:10.494 - Art Gallery. It is part of a private collection, though, so it will be going away. 00:24:13.026 --> 00:24:20.855 - After his visit to the World's Fair in 1893, he will paint the bloom of the grapes seen here. The palette 00:24:20.855 --> 00:24:28.388 - of his canvas changed slightly to reflect sort of a white period in the progression of his art, which 00:24:28.388 --> 00:24:35.921 - echoed the palette of French Impressionists. I don't think this is a great example of that, but there 00:24:35.921 --> 00:24:41.534 - are several of his paintings that have the very Monet pastel tones to them. 00:24:42.882 --> 00:24:51.989 - Bloom of the Grape earned an honorable mention in the 1900s World Fair in Paris, bringing steel international 00:24:51.989 --> 00:25:00.269 - recognition. The 1890s brought about great recognition for steel as the leading artist in the state 00:25:00.269 --> 00:25:04.574 - and one of the most notable painters in the region. 00:25:07.138 --> 00:25:15.228 - Steel was part of a group of artists known as the Hoosier Group. This included T.C. Steel, of course, 00:25:15.228 --> 00:25:20.542 - William Forsyth, John Otis Adams, Otto Stark, and Richard Grewell. 00:25:21.026 --> 00:25:31.728 - This is a painting done by Wayman Adams in 1921. Richard Gruwell is not part of that painting because 00:25:31.728 --> 00:25:42.325 - he passed away seven years before. But if you can't pick out TC, I will show you, hopefully. So this 00:25:42.325 --> 00:25:44.318 - is him right here. 00:25:49.026 --> 00:25:57.708 - It became known as the Hoosier Group due to a Chicago exhibit in 1894. And then they will exhibit again 00:25:57.708 --> 00:26:06.391 - in Indianapolis together. The name was coined by an art critic. Steele and Adams will purchase together 00:26:06.391 --> 00:26:12.318 - a home studio in Brookville, Indiana, as you can see in this painting. 00:26:13.346 --> 00:26:25.053 - The home is nicknamed The Hermitage, named by Libby Steele. And it operates today as a bed and breakfast. 00:26:25.053 --> 00:26:36.318 - So during this time, we call it the Brookville period. It's a very important time in Steele's career. 00:26:36.318 --> 00:26:41.950 - He's gaining so much notoriety, and he's just very 00:26:42.178 --> 00:26:52.837 - present in the art world. Okay, so we finally have contact with Indiana University. In July of 1896, T.C. 00:26:52.837 --> 00:27:02.993 - Libby and Shirley will take his studio wagon from Indianapolis to Bloomington. He was there to paint 00:27:02.993 --> 00:27:11.038 - portraits of several of the former professors and presidents of the university. 00:27:12.194 --> 00:27:21.863 - There here are just a few paintings. See Wiley, Ballantine, Kirkwood. If you're from this region, you 00:27:21.863 --> 00:27:32.574 - know these names. He will also paint Andrew Wiley, Joseph Swain, David Jordan, James Woodburn, and Richard Owen. 00:27:40.450 --> 00:27:49.024 - portrait done by Steele of the university's ninth president in 1898, Dr. Joseph Swain. On the right, 00:27:49.024 --> 00:27:57.598 - there's a letter to Swain from Steele. Steele let him know that his portrait was sent to him the day 00:27:57.598 --> 00:28:06.172 - before, and he mentions the painting that Swain had shown interest in during their last meeting. The 00:28:06.172 --> 00:28:07.870 - painting was called 00:28:08.194 --> 00:28:16.709 - morning on the old Whitewater Canal. This painting was originally priced at $75. Swain offered him $60, 00:28:16.709 --> 00:28:25.224 - which Steele agrees on now. So he will say that in his letter here, you had better telegraph me if this 00:28:25.224 --> 00:28:33.411 - strikes you as favorably, as I presume there is little time to spare. There must be a lot of people 00:28:33.411 --> 00:28:35.294 - wanting that painting. 00:28:39.298 --> 00:28:49.000 - This is Libby. Near the end of her life, she will suffer from typhoid fever and rheumatoid arthritis. 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:58.606 - Steele will have a studio wagon built especially with her in mind so they can travel together in the 00:28:58.606 --> 00:29:07.262 - countryside and she can lay out on the long benches. So she had a painful end of her life. 00:29:08.898 --> 00:29:18.803 - The painter will travel to New York in 1899 to serve on the selection jury, choosing American art pieces 00:29:18.803 --> 00:29:28.426 - in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. Just two days after returning home, Libby will pass away from 00:29:28.426 --> 00:29:36.350 - tuberculosis. Steele will go through a period where he finds it difficult to paint, 00:29:36.674 --> 00:29:45.763 - And the paintings he did produce were of amorous nature. I would argue that a lot of these paintings 00:29:45.763 --> 00:29:54.761 - are some of his most beautiful. His daughter Daisy will take notice of the rut that he's in. So she 00:29:54.761 --> 00:30:03.850 - will arrange for them to take a trip out west to visit his youngest son, Shirley, in 1902. This trip 00:30:03.850 --> 00:30:05.470 - re-energized him. 00:30:05.762 --> 00:30:14.701 - He painted the Oregon coast when he visited his mother out there. And then he painted the Redlands, 00:30:14.701 --> 00:30:23.820 - California, where Shirley lived. The pair would make this trip in 1902 and in 1903. Steele comes home 00:30:23.820 --> 00:30:32.938 - with many new canvases, and the people will say, T.C. Steele is back. Here is a beautiful portrait of 00:30:32.938 --> 00:30:35.262 - Daisy, Steele's daughter. 00:30:35.906 --> 00:30:45.049 - It is a new acquisition for us, and it's not a wedding portrait, although it looks like it could be 00:30:45.049 --> 00:30:54.558 - one. Daisy will marry Gustav Neubacher on June 1st, 1905. Daisy was close friends with Gustav's sister, 00:30:54.558 --> 00:31:03.518 - Selma Neubacher. They ran around in the same art circles as Selma was a Pratt Institute graduate. 00:31:03.970 --> 00:31:12.864 - and was colleagues with Brandt at the Heron School of Art. She was also the assistant superintendent 00:31:12.864 --> 00:31:21.934 - for art in the Indianapolis public school system. In 1906, TC and Selma will get engaged secretly. Why 00:31:21.934 --> 00:31:31.533 - a secret, you ask? Well, Selma was 25 years younger than TC, and I'm sure his children, who were essentially 00:31:31.533 --> 00:31:32.766 - the same age, 00:31:32.866 --> 00:31:42.916 - may have had some opinions about that. While they were engaged, TC declared he wanted an art sanctuary. 00:31:42.916 --> 00:31:52.676 - TC will go to Brown County with Selma's brother, Walter. This search was quick. The couple purchased 00:31:52.676 --> 00:32:01.566 - an abandoned farm in Belmont, Indiana, and started their plans for building their new home. 00:32:02.306 --> 00:32:12.894 - This is a painting of Selma working in her garden. This is one of TC Steel's most famous artworks. I 00:32:12.894 --> 00:32:24.007 - should note here that this photo is likely dated at the end of the painter's life. But it is a photograph 00:32:24.007 --> 00:32:26.942 - of his property in Belmont. 00:32:27.170 --> 00:32:36.862 - When they arrived they can see the smokestacks at Indiana University 13 miles away It was a logging 00:32:36.862 --> 00:32:46.845 - community But there were trees So he does talk that he could see the smoke rising from the smokestacks 00:32:46.845 --> 00:32:53.726 - in letters to Sama And he could hear the drain which is interesting So 00:32:53.826 --> 00:33:01.318 - While he was overseeing construction on the property, he was surprised to see two young men walking 00:33:01.318 --> 00:33:09.034 - up that hill. They were members of the senior class at Indiana University. They asked him to paint the 00:33:09.034 --> 00:33:16.675 - portrait of their current president, William Lowe Bryan. TC would agree, and he would travel back and 00:33:16.675 --> 00:33:21.470 - forth from their hilltop home in Brown County to the IU campus. 00:33:25.538 --> 00:33:34.422 - Paid a portrait from wife, TC required 12 sittings at two hours each visit. The two men became best 00:33:34.422 --> 00:33:43.839 - friends. Steele found Dr. Bryan to be more than a good sitter. Bryan was, in Steele's words, a delightful 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.438 - and charming man. 00:33:46.818 --> 00:33:54.440 - Dividing his time between Brown County and the IU campus, he wrote to Selma from a hotel room on May 00:33:54.440 --> 00:34:02.137 - 26, 1907. I have told you how beautiful the campus is here, with its cluster of stone buildings among 00:34:02.137 --> 00:34:09.985 - the trees. A great many people were walking around the grounds, and some kind of service was being held 00:34:09.985 --> 00:34:13.758 - in the auditorium. I keep away from these places. 00:34:13.890 --> 00:34:23.574 - for I do not want to meet people and run the risk of being invited out. I have evaded several invitations, 00:34:23.574 --> 00:34:33.168 - and yet I like the air and culture and intelligence of a college town. What a contrast to the neighboring 00:34:33.168 --> 00:34:42.309 - county seat to the east. They are a century apart, as well as 20 miles. Over the next decade, he and 00:34:42.309 --> 00:34:43.486 - Brian became 00:34:43.778 --> 00:34:53.654 - very good friends, and the Seals would attend numerous IU social and cultural events. Here's Salma and 00:34:53.654 --> 00:35:03.625 - TC in the living room of their home. We set it up just as you see in the pictures from their time while 00:35:03.625 --> 00:35:12.542 - they were living there. So it feels like they have just walked out. We own all of the books. 00:35:12.930 --> 00:35:21.554 - all of the artifacts from the couple, which makes our historic home so special. So here is Selma. They 00:35:21.554 --> 00:35:29.927 - have moved in in 1907, and they are enjoying their home. When they first arrived, Selma didn't know 00:35:29.927 --> 00:35:37.630 - how to plant food. She didn't even really know how to cook. If you remember, she was raised 00:35:37.954 --> 00:35:46.518 - For middle class, she has an education. There would be people in her home who had done these things 00:35:46.518 --> 00:35:55.168 - for them. But in Brown County, when you come in the middle of the woods in 1907, you are expected to 00:35:55.168 --> 00:36:03.903 - know how to farm. So she will, though, learn how to plant food with some help from her neighbor, Mrs. 00:36:03.903 --> 00:36:06.558 - Parks. And she will learn from 00:36:07.106 --> 00:36:16.774 - bulletins from Purdue University, what to plant, when, and how. She became quite good at planting food 00:36:16.774 --> 00:36:26.349 - and flowers. The neighbors couldn't imagine why she would be planting flowers. They told her that she 00:36:26.349 --> 00:36:34.046 - was wasting her time. When she explained that she plants the flowers, her husband 00:36:34.242 --> 00:36:43.463 - paints the flowers, and then they get money for those paintings. They will then sort of back off and 00:36:43.463 --> 00:36:53.140 - say, oh, OK. I get it now. So she loved his green landscapes, but she really encouraged him to add color, 00:36:53.140 --> 00:37:02.270 - hence the still lifes. He will paint many flower arrangements that Selma will put together for him. 00:37:02.946 --> 00:37:13.788 - But one thing that is important to remember, so this is a Brown County landscape. In 1907, people in 00:37:13.788 --> 00:37:24.953 - Brown County are living in log cabins. They are very interested in what is going on at this house, this 00:37:24.953 --> 00:37:27.422 - red house on the hill. 00:37:27.650 --> 00:37:36.850 - So they will come, and they will want to be entertained by the Victrola, by the player piano. They want 00:37:36.850 --> 00:37:46.138 - to know why the man of the household doesn't farm. He paints for a living. And the woman plants flowers. 00:37:46.138 --> 00:37:54.984 - So they will come, and Zama will entertain them. And they had an interesting start to their time in 00:37:54.984 --> 00:37:56.222 - Brown County. 00:37:57.506 --> 00:38:08.631 - Steel was selected to feature a Brown County landscape called a Brown County Valley for the frontispiece 00:38:08.631 --> 00:38:19.437 - of the Arbutus in 1910, which those of you who don't know, it's the yearbook from Indiana University. 00:38:19.437 --> 00:38:26.430 - Inspired by his newfound landscape, Steel produced many canvases. 00:38:26.626 --> 00:38:36.315 - For the first time, people are seeing Brown County without industrialization, with uninterrupted vistas. 00:38:36.315 --> 00:38:45.543 - Artists in the Midwest are taking note. Many will take trips to Nashville for painting expeditions. 00:38:45.543 --> 00:38:56.062 - Eventually, however, artists will begin to make Nashville their permanent home and turn it into an artist colony. 00:38:56.194 --> 00:39:07.584 - We do know that TC painted in Nashville with many of these artists, but he'd rather be at home painting 00:39:07.584 --> 00:39:18.646 - his landscape there. For the first time in Bloomington, Steele will have a solo exhibition put on by 00:39:18.646 --> 00:39:24.670 - the IU Art Department as part of the state centennial. 00:39:24.994 --> 00:39:34.225 - which included various programs on campus in the spring of 1916. Paintings were hung in the West Parlor 00:39:34.225 --> 00:39:43.189 - and at the YWCA room in the student building. Because of its great success, the exhibit was extended 00:39:43.189 --> 00:39:52.419 - until after the graduation ceremony in June. The largest canvas in the group was purchased by the Men's 00:39:52.419 --> 00:39:53.662 - Faculty Club, 00:39:53.762 --> 00:40:03.796 - This was the first steel painting purchased by the university. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of 00:40:03.796 --> 00:40:13.829 - it. Selma recalls in her book, The House of the Singing Winds, that on June 14th, 1916, at graduation 00:40:13.829 --> 00:40:18.846 - commencement, there was a surprise to the painter. 00:40:19.298 --> 00:40:28.747 - IU confirmed the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws to Theodore Clement Steele in recognition of his 00:40:28.747 --> 00:40:38.384 - distinguished attainments and achievements. She continued, when finally the presentation by President 00:40:38.384 --> 00:40:39.518 - Brian came, 00:40:39.650 --> 00:40:48.743 - in words so beautiful that I was in tears. The painter, too, showed plainly how deeply he was moved 00:40:48.743 --> 00:40:57.836 - by the honor bestowed upon him. IU gave very few honorary degrees in those days, and the individual 00:40:57.836 --> 00:41:07.838 - had to meet several requirements to receive the honor. This still holds true today. Following the IU exhibit, 00:41:08.194 --> 00:41:17.006 - Steele was painting in a rented studio space on Monument Circle in Indianapolis, as well as in his home 00:41:17.006 --> 00:41:25.648 - in Brown County. In 1887, we're going to go back a little bit to talk about the monument, the Indiana 00:41:25.648 --> 00:41:34.629 - General Assembly created the Monument Commission, which was responsible for erecting a monument dedicated 00:41:34.629 --> 00:41:37.086 - to the state's soldiers whom 00:41:37.378 --> 00:41:46.449 - had died at war. T.C. and William Forsyth, another Hoosier group artist, were art advisors for the commission 00:41:46.449 --> 00:41:54.777 - of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Circle. This would become one of Steele's most, probably 00:41:54.777 --> 00:42:03.518 - not most famous, but I think he loved painting the monument. I think it was one of his favorite subjects. 00:42:07.330 --> 00:42:16.590 - Many IU students would travel to TC and Selma's home and visit the painter. They wanted to get a glimpse 00:42:16.590 --> 00:42:25.409 - of the newly built large studio that you can see here and you can see inside the studio. It was the 00:42:25.409 --> 00:42:34.846 - first free studio in the Midwest and it was open to the public. Selma notes 500 visitors in the year 1918. 00:42:35.298 --> 00:42:46.086 - I think it only increased from there. It's hard for us to imagine that it was an active art gallery, 00:42:46.086 --> 00:42:55.486 - and visitors from all over would come and visit the historic site. So during this time, 00:42:55.714 --> 00:43:04.040 - Professor Brooks at the art department at IU will also arrange with Steele a number of small canvases 00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:12.366 - to be used as a traveling exhibition. This big exhibition was sent out all over the state of Indiana. 00:43:12.366 --> 00:43:21.182 - I don't know any more information from there, but I can't help but wonder what happened to those paintings. 00:43:24.642 --> 00:43:33.997 - I know of one painting done on campus of Indiana University during this period. It's this one of the 00:43:33.997 --> 00:43:43.258 - student building painted in 1919. However, knowing how prolific he was, I would assume there are at 00:43:43.258 --> 00:43:52.706 - least a couple more canvases from this very day. Under Bryan's administration, the Department of Fine 00:43:52.706 --> 00:43:54.558 - Arts grew steadily. 00:43:55.330 --> 00:44:04.765 - He stated that the arts are as important to the university as scholarship. This is a huge deal for the 00:44:04.765 --> 00:44:13.651 - arts. Brian was instrumental in securing Steele's Artist-in-Residency, which was a first for IU. 00:44:13.651 --> 00:44:19.422 - On June 9, 1922, Brian invited TC Steele to hold the position. 00:44:19.970 --> 00:44:29.244 - Not only did IU offer a $2,500 honorarium for the year, but Bryan arranged for Seal to have no prescribed 00:44:29.244 --> 00:44:37.644 - duties and to do whatever you think most profitable for your art. Sounds like a good gig to me. 00:44:37.644 --> 00:44:47.006 - By this point, Seal was in his 70s, and he already had many accolades. Did he need this opportunity at IU? 00:44:47.298 --> 00:44:57.163 - know, but Selma wrote in her book that if he had chosen not to do it, he definitely would have missed 00:44:57.163 --> 00:45:07.317 - it. He really enjoyed his time at IU and enjoyed being with the students on campus. Today, you can visit 00:45:07.317 --> 00:45:17.182 - a historical marker that was put up during the university's bicentennial celebration during the ninth 00:45:17.378 --> 00:45:27.972 - 2019-2020 school year. It marks the location of Steele's on-campus studio. And at the time, this building 00:45:27.972 --> 00:45:38.166 - was actually the university library. It's now Franklin Hall. His studio occupied the top floor of the 00:45:38.166 --> 00:45:44.062 - building. So here you can see inside his studio on campus. 00:45:44.450 --> 00:45:54.271 - He also had the title honorary professor of painting. The mission was to lead students to see the beautiful 00:45:54.271 --> 00:46:03.547 - in nature and in life. An IU student recalled his visit to Steele's studio. If Mr. Steele is painting 00:46:03.547 --> 00:46:08.094 - when you visit the studio, he continues to paint. 00:46:08.674 --> 00:46:17.274 - And you may either wander looking at canvases on the walls or watch him work. Another visitor happened 00:46:17.274 --> 00:46:25.874 - to say that he thought one landscape looked so natural. Steele responded, so many people seem to think 00:46:25.874 --> 00:46:34.474 - that the landscape artist merely makes an exact copy of what he sees in nature. Not at all. The artist 00:46:34.474 --> 00:46:38.398 - is not so much a student of the face of nature 00:46:38.498 --> 00:46:48.363 - as of her moods. Steele talks a lot about how he paints the moods of nature. So reading this quote, 00:46:48.363 --> 00:46:58.327 - I knew that was a direct quote from Steele. On the left is a photo of TC and the future president of 00:46:58.327 --> 00:47:08.094 - Indiana University, Herman B. Wells. I think it's pretty spectacular that this picture even exists 00:47:08.322 --> 00:47:17.599 - very special. It wasn't uncommon for Steele to paint. You know, he's an in-plane air painter. He wants 00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:26.697 - to be outside painting. And so this was a regular scene on campus while he was an artist-in-resident 00:47:26.697 --> 00:47:35.794 - there. The picture on the right, that is of T.C. and the current President William Lowe Bryan. These 00:47:35.794 --> 00:47:38.046 - are both in Dunn Meadow. 00:47:42.082 --> 00:47:49.949 - Here is another photo of Steele painting during his artist in residency in Cascade Park. Six months 00:47:49.949 --> 00:47:57.894 - out of the year, Steele was expected to be in residence. TC and Selma would split their time between 00:47:57.894 --> 00:48:05.918 - IU, where they rented a house, and their hilltop home in Brown County. During their time, Bloomington 00:48:06.114 --> 00:48:16.270 - In Bloomington, Selma would give a series of teas on Sundays for members of the faculty. So she was 00:48:16.270 --> 00:48:26.831 - really making her, forming her own relationships there. In 1923, one year into the artist in residency, 00:48:26.831 --> 00:48:33.534 - IU began to purchase artwork from earlier in the artist's career. 00:48:33.954 --> 00:48:42.826 - This is a bill of sale from the purchase. These paintings were to be placed in the Indiana Memorial 00:48:42.826 --> 00:48:52.319 - Union, where you can still find them today. I always like to note the pricing for some of these paintings. 00:48:52.319 --> 00:48:58.174 - For those who can't see in the back, $500, and the rest are $400. 00:49:02.786 --> 00:49:13.538 - Senior and IU professor of English published a booklet in 1924 called Art for Your Sake. It focused 00:49:13.538 --> 00:49:25.044 - on Steele's presence on campus. In this booklet, there's a title called What Not to Do, where he explains, 00:49:25.044 --> 00:49:31.710 - it's better to look and look with a quiet willingness to see. 00:49:32.450 --> 00:49:43.110 - In another section called Why Mr. Steele is Here, he explains that Mr. Steele is not here to teach or 00:49:43.110 --> 00:49:53.561 - to lecture, except by the grace of good nature, but is to bring a benefit to us all by merely being 00:49:53.561 --> 00:50:01.086 - present and practicing his art where we can see it. While campus was a, 00:50:01.282 --> 00:50:10.853 - a lot smaller than it is today, a century ago. Many locations are still recognizable to us. I will go 00:50:10.853 --> 00:50:21.080 - through these slides fairly quickly for time's sake. And there are many more paintings of Indiana University 00:50:21.080 --> 00:50:27.742 - than what I show here. I tried to find an image of the building online 00:50:27.970 --> 00:50:38.003 - for each of these paintings from around the time he painted them. So this one is Lindley Hall. Here's 00:50:38.003 --> 00:50:42.430 - one of the Jordan River now called Eagleton. 00:50:46.946 --> 00:50:57.521 - This was the campus library where Steel's studio occupied the top floor. It's now known as President's 00:50:57.521 --> 00:51:08.096 - Hall or Franklin Hall. I heard that the top floor now is like HVAC, which is a little depressing. This 00:51:08.096 --> 00:51:16.926 - is a painting that features Swain Hall East through Dunwoods from the northwest side. 00:51:21.474 --> 00:51:34.774 - This painting includes Kirkwood Hall and Lindley Hall from the east side of Dunn Woods. Here is a view 00:51:34.774 --> 00:51:47.945 - of Memorial Hall from the northeast looking southwest. Students had just moved into this new dorm the 00:51:47.945 --> 00:51:50.398 - year before. Okay. 00:51:50.562 --> 00:51:58.396 - enjoy this painting. It's the eastern side of campus. It depicts the former IU power plant. You can 00:51:58.396 --> 00:52:06.229 - see the smoke stack there. As I mentioned before, Steele noted that he could see the smoke from his 00:52:06.229 --> 00:52:14.141 - home 13 miles to the east. And we talk about this a lot at this site when we're saying how different 00:52:14.141 --> 00:52:17.118 - the landscape has changed since then. 00:52:21.058 --> 00:52:32.938 - This painting shows Dunn Cemetery on campus. The former IU power plant and printing plant were located 00:52:32.938 --> 00:52:44.126 - where the hotel portion of the Indiana Memorial Union currently stands today. From 1922 to 1926, 00:52:44.290 --> 00:52:52.719 - T.C. Steele served as artist in resident at Indiana University with a spacious studio spanning the top 00:52:52.719 --> 00:53:01.148 - floor of Franklin Hall, university library then. Before he passed away, there were plans drawn to make 00:53:01.148 --> 00:53:09.822 - a private studio for the artist. Those plans never came to fruition as he died before the work had begun. 00:53:10.626 --> 00:53:18.675 - Months before his passing, he suffered from a heart attack and slowly recovered. IU students came to 00:53:18.675 --> 00:53:27.123 - visit him when they heard he had fallen ill again. Selma said that this really raised his spirits. Steele 00:53:27.123 --> 00:53:32.702 - will pass away on July 24th, 1926 because of a gallbladder infection. 00:53:36.834 --> 00:53:45.604 - If you know anything about IU, you know that they do not like to cancel classes. And there's quite a 00:53:45.604 --> 00:53:54.895 - bit of history to support this. However, upon the news of Steele's death, President Brian canceled classes 00:53:54.895 --> 00:54:04.012 - for his funeral on July 27. Hundreds from the university attended. On the right is the alumni newsletter 00:54:04.012 --> 00:54:06.270 - put out on July 31, 1926. 00:54:06.722 --> 00:54:15.848 - with two featured articles about T.C. Steele, one a retrospective of his life and career and the other 00:54:15.848 --> 00:54:25.417 - featuring thoughts shared by faculty and administrators at IU. There were two funerals, one in Indianapolis 00:54:25.417 --> 00:54:30.910 - and the other at his home in Brown County where he is buried. 00:54:31.138 --> 00:54:44.119 - The photo has been colorized, as you can probably tell. And you can see Selma in the middle there. Artist 00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:56.856 - Will Vodder carried Steele's ashes to his grave site. In December of 1926, Indiana University dedicated 00:54:56.856 --> 00:54:59.550 - the entire newsletter 00:54:59.874 --> 00:55:11.004 - to TC steel by reprinting remarks that speakers gave during his funeral. President Brian sent this letter 00:55:11.004 --> 00:55:21.609 - to Selma nearly a year after his passing. They kept in touch over the years. Here he is assuring her 00:55:21.609 --> 00:55:26.334 - that he wanted to establish a memorial to TC 00:55:26.498 --> 00:55:35.473 - But in the meantime, the trustees wanted to hold a rotating exhibit with just a few paintings at a time 00:55:35.473 --> 00:55:44.276 - in one of the new picture galleries, as he called it. He wanted visitors to be able to concentrate on 00:55:44.276 --> 00:55:53.511 - just a few steel paintings at one time. I find this to be pretty reasonable and very thoughtful. President 00:55:53.511 --> 00:55:55.582 - Bryan sent a letter to. 00:55:56.322 --> 00:56:05.899 - Sorry, I lost my place. All right, so if you aren't convinced by now that IU loved T.C. Steele, I don't 00:56:05.899 --> 00:56:15.199 - know what will convince you. Here you can see the yearbook, the Arbutus, dedicated to T.C. Steele in 00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:22.750 - its 1927 edition. The dedication states, he has seen beauty and brought it to us. 00:56:28.706 --> 00:56:37.848 - In 1930, William Lowe Bryan will purchase six steel paintings from Selma. This was a great help to Selma 00:56:37.848 --> 00:56:46.990 - during the Great Depression. If you've ever been curious what a steel painting cost during his lifetime, 00:56:46.990 --> 00:56:55.871 - now you know. You've seen a couple of slides with the bill of sale. A lot of times these prices would 00:56:55.871 --> 00:56:57.438 - vary depending on 00:56:57.698 --> 00:57:07.545 - size, quality, and subject. Selma will, like I said, become really good at planting food. She will sell 00:57:07.545 --> 00:57:17.202 - her produce out on 46, as well as her eggs and honey after steel passes. Much like we do today, Selma 00:57:17.202 --> 00:57:25.534 - will charge for tours. She will, for a quarter, give you a tour of the house or studio. 00:57:29.346 --> 00:57:37.181 - In 1938, President Herman B. Wells invited Selma to a reception for the senior class. Unfortunately, 00:57:37.181 --> 00:57:45.094 - I don't know any more details from this, but I assume it's part of the graduation happenings. This is 00:57:45.094 --> 00:57:53.007 - significant because it tells us that even under a new administration, Indiana University continued to 00:57:53.007 --> 00:57:55.102 - reach out to Selma Steele. 00:57:58.178 --> 00:58:07.649 - She did attempt to get Indiana University to take over the property once she passed away. However, that 00:58:07.649 --> 00:58:16.755 - did not happen. She listed out her assets, as you can see here, but they did not end up doing this. 00:58:16.755 --> 00:58:25.862 - And this is a photograph of Salma in front of the large studio. She will end up leaving the site to 00:58:25.862 --> 00:58:27.774 - the state of Indiana 00:58:28.354 --> 00:58:39.197 - for it to be turned into a memorial just two months before her death. She left us 350 paintings, 00:58:39.197 --> 00:58:50.487 - 211 acres, numerous artifacts and objects in five historic buildings. The Department of Conservation 00:58:50.487 --> 00:58:55.294 - will manage the site from 1945 until 1965. 00:58:55.618 --> 00:59:04.475 - And then it will switch hands to the Department of Natural Resources until 2011. From 2011 until today, 00:59:04.475 --> 00:59:12.991 - it's been managed by the Indiana State Museum and historic sites. Before she did all that, however, 00:59:12.991 --> 00:59:21.763 - she wrote a book called The House of the Singing Winds, where she gives details from the artist's life 00:59:21.763 --> 00:59:24.318 - while living in Brown County. 00:59:24.674 --> 00:59:32.853 - This includes the partnership between the painter and Indiana University. IU has the second largest 00:59:32.853 --> 00:59:40.950 - collection of steel paintings in the world, second to the Indiana State Museum and historic sites. 00:59:40.950 --> 00:59:50.110 - Over time, their collection has grown to over 75 works. This year marks the centennial of T.C. Steel's passing. 00:59:50.370 --> 00:59:58.993 - Many art institutions, including TC Steel State Historic Site, have held special memorial exhibits for 00:59:58.993 --> 01:00:07.365 - TC Steel. University Collections at McCalla has a great exhibit happening right now that focuses on 01:00:07.365 --> 01:00:15.486 - steel and Indiana University's relationship. So I would go there immediately after this program. 01:00:17.250 --> 01:00:28.137 - Also, Brown County Art Gallery has a very large exhibit of 100 paintings pulled from institutions across 01:00:28.137 --> 01:00:37.054 - the state and also private collections. This exhibit will end in I think a few weeks. 01:00:37.218 --> 01:00:46.755 - but it is definitely worth the trip to the Brown County Art Gallery. The Brown County Art Guild also 01:00:46.755 --> 01:00:56.386 - has an exhibition there where they focus on steel and a lot of their permanent collection artists and 01:00:56.386 --> 01:01:06.206 - their relationship and things like that. And finally, the Hahn Museum in, I think they're in Lafayette, 01:01:06.914 --> 01:01:14.793 - They have a beautiful collection. If you've never been and really enjoy Hoosier art, their collection 01:01:14.793 --> 01:01:22.750 - is spectacular. Their exhibit will open, I believe, in October. So I'm really looking forward to that. 01:01:23.170 --> 01:01:33.098 - Join us, me and Nan Brewer at the Juniper Gallery of Art at 4pm on September 16th for a book share on 01:01:33.098 --> 01:01:41.566 - Selma's memoir, The House of the Singing Winds, where I got a lot of this information. 01:01:42.338 --> 01:01:52.113 - So thank you so much for having me today. Please come to the TC Steel State Historic Site. Selma wanted 01:01:52.113 --> 01:02:01.513 - us to give tours to you. So please come and visit. We're open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 to 5. We 01:02:01.513 --> 01:02:09.502 - offer three tours a day. It's coming up in our busy season. So give us a call first. 01:02:09.666 --> 01:02:16.849 - many, many school groups coming, especially in the morning. So if you want to come to the site in the 01:02:16.849 --> 01:02:23.892 - fall, give us a call ahead of time so we can make sure you get it on a tour. So what is this again? 01:02:23.892 --> 01:02:31.075 - I'm sorry? What is it again? The TC Steel State Historic Site. And where is it? It's in between. It's 01:02:31.075 --> 01:02:35.582 - in Belmont. So it's in between Bloomington and Nashville on 46. 01:02:46.210 --> 01:03:09.045 - Thank you. All right, does anybody have any questions? Yeah. No, I was expecting to get this question, 01:03:09.045 --> 01:03:14.366 - but I am not allowed to 01:03:14.594 --> 01:03:26.078 - say. It's a not a security issue, but it's a not even that. It's more of we don't put prices on our 01:03:26.078 --> 01:03:37.676 - artifacts and things like that. But I will say that you can Google TCCL paintings at auction and see 01:03:37.676 --> 01:03:44.222 - what they go for. And again, it's still today depends on 01:03:44.386 --> 01:03:55.642 - size, condition, and subject. Yeah. Yeah. You said there are other buildings on the side. Why did they 01:03:55.642 --> 01:04:07.007 - do that? Oh, that's a great question. OK. So we have, oh, OK, good. Died right in time. So we have five 01:04:07.007 --> 01:04:14.110 - historic buildings. We have the house. We have the large studio. 01:04:14.946 --> 01:04:25.303 - which was built in 1916. We have the small studio that was built in 1912. It used to be a chicken coop 01:04:25.303 --> 01:04:35.459 - and tool shed that they kind of smashed together. And so that building is still there. They also had 01:04:35.459 --> 01:04:40.990 - a, I want to call it the first Airbnb in Brown County. 01:04:41.122 --> 01:04:51.144 - That building, I think it collapsed in the 60s. So it's no longer standing, but our visitor center was 01:04:51.144 --> 01:05:00.874 - built within its outline on the site. The Dewar Log Cabin. So Selma found out that a cabin that was 01:05:00.874 --> 01:05:09.534 - five miles away was going to be dismantled and discarded. So she had people dismantle it 01:05:09.666 --> 01:05:18.499 - and bring it to the site and reassemble it. This was really a way for her to show the contrast of the 01:05:18.499 --> 01:05:27.331 - story of when they arrived. People in Brown County were living in log cabins. So she could talk about 01:05:27.331 --> 01:05:29.150 - that. It also served 01:05:29.314 --> 01:05:41.086 - as a exhibition space that she created in memorial to her brother, Walter, who was an amateur naturalist. 01:05:41.086 --> 01:05:52.192 - So she had specimen in that building for a while. And then, yes. Yes, very good. Yes, very good. So 01:05:52.192 --> 01:05:58.078 - they do her family. They had 17 children go through. 01:05:58.306 --> 01:06:07.506 - that cabin. There was a first Mrs. Dewar and then a second Mrs. Dewar. So not one person is birthing 01:06:07.506 --> 01:06:16.706 - these 17 children, luckily. But we will assume that some of these kids are filing out along the way, 01:06:16.706 --> 01:06:23.902 - but still it's a one-bedroom cabin with a loft. It leaves a lot to be desired. 01:06:28.258 --> 01:06:44.048 - Cool. Selma died in 1945. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So it's really interesting. During his lifetime, he was exhibiting 01:06:44.048 --> 01:06:54.814 - all across the country. He was giving lectures all across the country from 01:06:55.042 --> 01:07:03.983 - New York City all the way to San Diego. And there are so many museums that already have his artwork 01:07:03.983 --> 01:07:13.103 - because he was painting in these regions. He spent a lot of time in Kansas. And so I know the museums 01:07:13.103 --> 01:07:15.070 - there have paintings. 01:07:15.490 --> 01:07:23.541 - the Redlands, California. It's interesting to me because people know T.C. Steele there. They know exactly 01:07:23.541 --> 01:07:31.213 - who he is. Same thing with Kansas. So it's interesting that many, many collections, including, oh, I 01:07:31.213 --> 01:07:38.884 - don't want to get this wrong. I want to say the MoMA has one of his paintings. But again, I might be 01:07:38.884 --> 01:07:42.910 - wrong about that. I know somewhere in New York City. 01:07:43.106 --> 01:07:58.030 - Yeah, a lot of places already have them. Any other questions? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yeah. They had their first 01:07:58.030 --> 01:08:12.670 - date at TC Steel, State Historic Site. And they really felt a connection with the property. I'm sorry? 01:08:13.954 --> 01:08:23.326 - Oh, sorry. So Bob and Barbara Stevens, he mentioned what their connection is. They donated 01:08:23.426 --> 01:08:33.452 - money for the visitor center to be built. We finally have running water, which means running toilets. 01:08:33.452 --> 01:08:43.380 - So we are forever grateful for them. And they just really became so connected to the site. They went 01:08:43.380 --> 01:08:50.654 - to Giverny to visit Monet's home and studio in France and they were like, 01:08:51.010 --> 01:09:03.975 - We have to get a visitor center for TC Steel. So they have donated money for buses to come to the site 01:09:03.975 --> 01:09:17.444 - in their community. They live in Columbus. So they've really supported us in so many ways. We're grateful. 01:09:17.444 --> 01:09:19.710 - Anybody else? OK. 01:09:20.226 --> 01:09:21.438 - Thank you guys so much.