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T.C. Steele (1847–1926) “House of the Singing Winds”
Theodore Clement Steele was born in Owen County, Indiana in 1847. He began painting at age 5 and spent his boyhood years at the Waveland Institute in rural Indiana where he taught other students. After graduating in 1868, he studied art in Chicago then moved to Indianapolis in 1873 to paint portraits. In 1880, he went to the Munich Royal Academy in Germany for five years and then returned to Indianapolis to resume portraiture and start the Indianapolis School of Art with William Forsyth. He was the most prominent member of the nationally recognized Hoosier Group which included Gruelle, Adams, Forsyth and Stark. He exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 which brought him national acclaim. His wife, Libby, died in 1899 and Steele began looking for a new location to begin again and he discovered Brown County in 1906. He and Selma, his new wife to be, bought their hilltop home/studio property that became the “House of the Singing Winds” and is now the State Historic Site in Brown County. They spent winters in Indianapolis returning to Brown County each spring to paint and keep their gardens. Steele is considered to be one of the finest of the American Impressionist painters to work in the Midwest. In his early years, Steele’s paintings were very much in the dark, dramatic style of the Munich School. It was only after Steele began exploring the Indiana countryside for inspiration that his impressionist palette would brighten. In 1925, he suffered a severe heart attack and died the next year.
Theodore Clement Steele was born in Owen County, Indiana in 1847. He began painting at age 5 and spent his boyhood years at the Waveland Institute in rural Indiana where he taught other students. After graduating in 1868, he studied art in Chicago then moved to Indianapolis in 1873 to paint portraits. In 1880, he went to the Munich Royal Academy in Germany for five years and then returned to Indianapolis to resume portraiture and start the Indianapolis School of Art with William Forsyth. He was the most prominent member of the nationally recognized Hoosier Group which included Gruelle, Adams, Forsyth and Stark. He exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 which brought him national acclaim. His wife, Libby, died in 1899 and Steele began looking for a new location to begin again and he discovered Brown County in 1906. He and Selma, his new wife to be, bought their hilltop home/studio property that became the “House of the Singing Winds” and is now the State Historic Site in Brown County. They spent winters in Indianapolis returning to Brown County each spring to paint and keep their gardens. Steele is considered to be one of the finest of the American Impressionist painters to work in the Midwest. In his early years, Steele’s paintings were very much in the dark, dramatic style of the Munich School. It was only after Steele began exploring the Indiana countryside for inspiration that his impressionist palette would brighten. In 1925, he suffered a severe heart attack and died the next year.