A letter from David Steele, President & Board Chair
Featured Painting: The Boatman
Painted in 1884 as his student exhibition piece at Munich’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Boatman, one of Steele’s finest early works, sharply contrasts with his later, and better-known, Impressionist paintings of the southern Indiana landscape.
In Memory
Mr. Arthur Ernest Mussett passed away at 91 years of age on March 6, 2018. Arthur and his late wife, Dorothy, were founding members …
Site Welcomes a New Face!
A life-long Hoosier, Pam was born in Linton and grew up in Terre Haute. Her parents fostered in her an appreciation of history and …
In the News
Cate Whetzel, Program Developer was interviewed by WTIU Public Media on January 9, 2018. WTIU is the public television station in Bloomington. The interview …
2018 Wildflower Foray
by Charlie Matson, Board Treasurer Over 500 nature lovers from around the Midwest gathered at the T.C. Steele State Historic Site for this year’s …
Garden Report
Jane DeVoe, Board member and Chair of Garden Committee William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, commonly known as Daffodils, was inspired …
Steele and Plein Air Painting
by Pauline Archambault, Board Secretary How could one help becoming aware of the existence of great and silent forces at work in the outdoors about …
T.C. Steele & the Whitewater Valley
by David Steele, President and Board Chair In 1896, T.C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams began annual summer visits to the Whitewater River Valley …
Greetings from David Steele!
We have had a productive winter at the site and when visiting this spring you will begin noticing the early signs of construction of …
The Bloom of the Grape
Painted in 1893, “The Bloom of the Grape” is viewed as one of Steele’s best-known landscapes and received an honorable mention at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris.
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