Springfield (MASS) Republican, April 16, 1926, p. 25. NOTE: The item below
was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. Consider Shultz
a spelling variant of Schulz.
ARTISTS FIND UNPSOILED SPOT ON HOOP HOLE RIDGE IN INDIANA
Nashville, Indiana, April 10-[AP]-On Hoop Hole Ridge and its tributary hills
near the hamlet of Nashville, Indiana perch the cabin studios of a score of
men and women who have brought international fame to Indiana and the Middle
West. More and more frequently canvasses are being hung in art exhibits
picturing the quiet countryside and the virgin woods of Brown County,
Indiana, and portraying the quaint hill folk of this "one unspoiled spot of
the Middle West."
When Adolph R. Shulz returned from Europe in the early years of the
century.to his great disappointment he found the pioneer type of farmer had
given way to the agriculturalist who worked with machinery and sent his
children to town for schooling. It was not until 1907 when he went on a
walking tour of the rural districts of Indiana that he found the backwoods
of Brown County and the simple hill folk he later helped to immortalize with
his brush. He settled here.
Another Indiana artist, however, already had "discovered" the beautiful
valleys and rolling hills near Nashville, and when Shulz and his artist
wife, Ada Walter Shulz, returned in 1907 to erect a studio, they found
Theodore C. Steele, "the grand old man of Indiana painting," already
installed in his "House of the Singing Winds."
Around the Shulzes and the Steeles have sprung up the work homes of artists
until today the Nashville colony is the largest of its kind in the Middle
West.
The old log meeting house of a defunct church near the hamlet is now the
studio of Marie Goth, the portrait painter, whose canvas of Charles
Dahlgreen, another noted figure in the colony, won the first prize for
portraits at the second Indiana Salon in Chicago.
Will Vawter, friend of James Whitcomb Riley and illustrator of his books of
peoms, occupies another cabin. Carl Graf, L. O. Griffith, Lucie Hartrath,
Ronald (sic) Batton, George Mock, Frederick Polley, Doel Reed, Paul Sargent,
Reynolds Selfridge, Beatrice Stoddard, F. Vance Nelson and Roy Trobaugh, all
of whom are well known in the galleries and museums of the country, either
have studios here or spend a part of each year.
The day is coming when the old types in the district will be no more, for
with "discovery" of the place by the artists have come the automobile and
railroad.
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