Theodore Clement Steele Paintings

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Theodore Clement Steele Biography

America Naturalist painter
born 1847 - died 1826

Born in Owen County, IN on Dec. 11, 1847. Steele studied at the Royal Academy in Munich. While in the West in 1902 and 1903, Theodore Clement Steele painted around Puget Sound, along the Oregon coast, and, after visiting with Wm Keith in San Francisco, continued on down to Redlands where Theodore Clement Steele painted several Impressionist mountain art and forest landscapes painting. The artist taught at the University of Indiana until his demise on July 24, 1926. Member: ANA (1914). Exh: Paris Expo, 1900. In: Cincinnati Museum.

Upon returning to the U.S., he co-founded the Indianapolis School of Art with William Forsyth. In these early years, Theodore Clement Steele paintings were very much in the dark, dramatic style of the Munich School. It was only after he began exploring the Indiana countryside for inspiration that his palette would brighten. By 1893, Theodore Clement Steele artist was showing, to critical acclaim, Impressionist landscapes at the Chicago Exposition.

They spent their first years as a couple in Battle Creek, Michigan, where T. C. eked out a living by painting portraits and teaching drawing. Their first son, Rembrandt Theodore, was born there in in 1870, and daughter Margaret "Daisy" in 1872. In 1873, they moved to Indianapolis, where T.C. continued to paint portraits and dream of continuing his studies by going abroad. Seeing within him the promise of greatness, local art patron Herman Lieber, a local pioneer, and many of his friends in the Fletcher family offered to advance him money in exchange for future Theodore Clement Steele paintings. Theo packed his bags, his wife, and their now three children and were soon off to the Royal Academy in Munich, where Theodore Clement Steele studied from 1880 to 1885. Much of our knowledge of his experiences there comes to us from an essay entitled "Impressions" which Mary wrote for the Portfolio Club in 1893.

She died in Indianapolis on November 14th, two days after T.C.returned from New York having helped an American Committee select Theodore Clement Steele paintings to be displayed at an international exhibition in Paris.

By 1893, Steele was exhibiting Impressionist paintings at the Chicago Exposition, and newspaper reporters and other writers, particularly Hamlin Garland, became publicizing Theodore Clement Steele and other Midwestern Impressionists.
Steele emerged as the leader and also became their spokesman. In a famous debate in 1896 with the conservative Chicago painter F. Hopkinson Smith, Theodore Clement Steele artist took a strong stance for this new Modernist art called Impressionism. To advocate their theories, Steele and his followers organized the Society of Western Artists, and some persons were saying that Theodore Clement Steele paintings were every bit as good as those of Claude Monet.

In 1902 and 1903, Theodore Clement Steele toured the American West, painting in Oregon along Puget Sound and in the San Francisco area, where Theodore Clement Steele artist associated with William Keith.
WITH THE PORTRAIT of Isaac Pusey Gray there begins a series of five Theodore Clement Steele paintings of governors by the artist. These are not to be confused with the four Theodore Clement Steele paintings made by him in connection with the state centennial in 1916.