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Richmond Art Museum

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Established
  
1898

Website
  
Official website

Date founded
  
1898

Type
  
Art Museum

Phone
  
+1 765-966-0256

Artwork
  
Self Portrait

Richmond Art Museum

Location
  
350 Hub Etchison ParkwayRichmond, Indiana

Address
  
350 Hub Etchison Pkwy, Richmond, IN 47374, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Wednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PMSundayClosedMondayClosedTuesday10AM–5PMSuggest an edit

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The Richmond Art Museum was founded in 1898 as the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana. Artist John Elwood Bundy and author and attorney William Dudley Foulke were instrumental in the founding.

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Permanent Collection

Its collection includes important works of American Impressionists, particularly from the Hoosier Group and 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 William Merritt Chase painted for the museum in 1915-16.

Some of the more important artists represented in the collection are:

  • William Merritt Chase
  • Frank Duveneck
  • Henry Mosler
  • Walter Shirlaw
  • William Aiken Walker
  • William Wendt
  • Charles Courtney Curran
  • William Victor Higgins
  • Ben Foster
  • Robert Reid
  • Asher Durand
  • Childe Hassam
  • Adam Emory Albright
  • E. Irving Couse
  • Leonard Ochtman
  • John Christen Johansen
  • Francis Focer Brown
  • Guy Carleton Wiggins
  • Jane Peterson
  • Janet Scudder
  • Paul Weber
  • Harry Mills Walcott
  • Albert Lorey Groll
  • Gordon Grant
  • Louis Betts
  • De Scott Evans
  • Marcus Mote
  • Frederick Judd Waugh
  • Wayman Elbridge Adams
  • Aminah Robinson
  • References

    Richmond Art Museum Wikipedia


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