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Late Afternoon Glow
Carl Graf (1892–1947) “Late Afternoon Glow”

 

 

GrafCarl Christopher Graph was born in Bedford, Indiana in 1892.   After high school, he studied painting and sculpture for seven years at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis with William Forsyth.  He then continued at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Cincinnati Academy of Art and the Art Students League in New York City where he met V.J. Cariani.  He moved to Indianapolis, started a studio and began spending summers camping and painting in Brown County.  It was there that he developed his mastery of color and impressionist landscapes spending much of his time with T.C. Steele, Cariani, and sisters Marie and Genevieve Goth.  Genevieve took painting lessons from Carl and in 1925, they fell in love and moved into the cabin Carl had built just east of Nashville.  He was a founding member and first president of the Brown County Indiana Art Association formed in 1926.  He won major awards and exhibited his works in the Hoosier Salon.  He died in 1947 in Indianapolis.  Much of Carl’s and Genevieve’s work was left with Marie Goth who has helped set up a permanent exhibit at the Brown County Art Guild.

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