The Artists of Brown County

From the early 1900s through the 1940s, the scenic hill country of BrownCounty, Indiana, was home to a flourishing colony of artists who migrated there fromurban areas of the Midwest. Now back in print, The Artists of Brown County, firstpublished in 1994, is the classic book on the history of this remarkable artcolony.Following an introduction to "Peaceful Valley," as thearea was affectionately called, chapters are devoted to 16 of the artists, includingthree couples: T. C. Steele, Will Vawter, Gustave Baumann, Dale Bessire, thephotographer Frank M. Hohenberger, Adolph Shulz and Ada Walter Shulz, L. O.Griffith, V. J. Cariani and Marie Goth, Carl C. Graf and Genevieve Goth Graf, EdwardK. Williams, Georges LaChance, C. Curry Bohm, and Glen Cooper Henshaw. Lavish colorreproductions of the artists' work accompany the biographical sketches. RachelBerenson Perry's introduction places the Brown County art colony within the broadercontext of American regional art.