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- by T.C. Steele are the painter's legacy to the people of Indiana. Several hundred of Steele's paintings

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- are preserved at the T.C. Steele State Memorial near Nashville, Indiana. Beyond the tangible legacy

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- of these paintings, T.C. Steele left a living legacy, a school of landscape painting that still flourishes.

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- Today, the wild beauty of the hills of Brown County continues to inspire a community of artists founded

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- by this man.

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- Theodore Clement Steele was one of Indiana's best known painters. In 1907, at the age of 60, Steele

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- left Indianapolis and built his studio home, the House of the Singing Winds, on a desolate hillside

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- near Nashville, Indiana. Here Steele's brush recorded the plays of light and the varying moods of nature

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- on the Indiana hill country. Steele painted what he saw about him. Indiana hills and valleys, bits of

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- streams and pasture,

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- picturesque woods and lanes, humble homes by the wayside. All places such as we may still see today,

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- but invested with a special charm by the magic of his brush. Steele was a painter of natural

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- national stature, yet he chose to celebrate his own state. His love for the Brown County Hills drew

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- others to the House of the Singing Winds. His studio home became a gathering place, not just for his

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- fellow artists, but for poets and writers like James Wickham Riley and Hamlin Garland.

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- This project seeks support for presenting T.C. Steel's contribution to Indiana culture and heritage

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- to a wider audience. Through narration of his arts, dramatization of his life, and presentation of his

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- works, the documentary will examine Steel's relationship to his time, his subjects, and his fellow artists.