The Story of the Brown County Art Colony
Adolph Robert Shulz
Indiana Magazine of History
Vol. 31, No. 4 (DECEMBER, 1935), pp. 282-289
(article consists of 8 pages)
Published by Indiana University Department of History
http://www.jstor.org/stable/27786760
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Antiques Roadshow
July 9 we have tickets to the Antiques Roadshow and we're taking 3 Anthony Buchta oil paintings. Two farm scenes and one scene of lilacs in a garden - beautiful! I don't know whether they can tell me anything about him but it will be good to get an appraisal.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Those Brown County Artists
Those Brown County Artists: The one's who came, the one's who stayed, the one's who moved on 1900-1950
Edited by M. Joanne Nesbit & compiled by Barbara Judd. Cover illustration by Carl Graf. Soft cover. 234 pages. Published 1993. Brand new condition. Contains brief biographies of 100 artists who worked between 1900 and 1950 in Brown County, Indiana. Some biographies contain examples of artists' signatures. An excellent reference for the dealer, collector, or Hoosier historian
Indianapaintings.com
Edited by M. Joanne Nesbit & compiled by Barbara Judd. Cover illustration by Carl Graf. Soft cover. 234 pages. Published 1993. Brand new condition. Contains brief biographies of 100 artists who worked between 1900 and 1950 in Brown County, Indiana. Some biographies contain examples of artists' signatures. An excellent reference for the dealer, collector, or Hoosier historian
Indianapaintings.com
Monday, March 28, 2011
Unofficial Biography
Fine Estate Art & Rugs, a gallery/auction house in Indianapolis that has sold a bunch of Anthony Buchta paintings, published this unofficial biography. Much of it appears correct. I'm trying to fill in the details.
What I know...
Anthony Buchta was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 13, 1896. Both of parents were immigrants from Bohemia (Czechoslovakia.) He was also an artist, who became well known as part of the Brown County (Indiana) Art Guild. I am lucky enough to have inherited many of this paintings from my grandmother who was his cousin.
Anthony (Tony) Buchta was also a "hunchback." His draft card only list a "deformity" as excluding him from active service. He also designed airplanes during WWII. My father remembers walking with him on a visit to Chicago. My father was just a boy and to him Tony seemed "his size" because he was unable to stand tall. He remembers him as kindly and patient to a young boy's inquiries.
His parents were John and Antonia (Antoinette) Buchta. I think. Although I'm not certain of the names of his parents. I do know that he had an older brother named Joseph (b.1890), who also an artist, and married to Pauline. They had a child named John. Anthony lived with them in Chicago according to 1930 census. Tony never married.
Many years later, beautiful landscape and watercolor painting and etchings became part of my grandmother's home. I used to imagine that I was part of the intricate details of the scene.
Anthony (Tony) Buchta was also a "hunchback." His draft card only list a "deformity" as excluding him from active service. He also designed airplanes during WWII. My father remembers walking with him on a visit to Chicago. My father was just a boy and to him Tony seemed "his size" because he was unable to stand tall. He remembers him as kindly and patient to a young boy's inquiries.
His parents were John and Antonia (Antoinette) Buchta. I think. Although I'm not certain of the names of his parents. I do know that he had an older brother named Joseph (b.1890), who also an artist, and married to Pauline. They had a child named John. Anthony lived with them in Chicago according to 1930 census. Tony never married.
Many years later, beautiful landscape and watercolor painting and etchings became part of my grandmother's home. I used to imagine that I was part of the intricate details of the scene.
Brown County, Indiana
Some resources on the Brown County artists. Tony is referenced in the "other" artists that arrived in Brown County later.
In an e-mail dated October 2006, Lyn Letsinger-Miller wrote: "He showed in lots of Brown County Art gallery shows, as well as the Hoosier Salon, but he was in the later group of artists to come here, and they haven't earned as much attention as the first wave of artists. He is still highly collectible and comes up routinely at auction."
The Artists of Brown County, 1994
By Lyn Letsinger-Miller
Product Description
From the early 1900s through the 1940s, the scenic hill country of Brown County, Indiana, was home to a flourishing colony of artists who migrated there from urban areas of the Midwest. Now back in print, The Artists of Brown County, first published in 1994, is the classic book on the history of this remarkable art colony.
Following an introduction to "Peaceful Valley," as the area was affectionately called, chapters are devoted to 16 of the artists, including three couples: T. C. Steele, Will Vawter, Gustave Baumann, Dale Bessire, the photographer Frank M. Hohenberger, Adolph Shulz and Ada Walter Shulz, L. O. Griffith, V. J. Cariani and Marie Goth, Carl C. Graf and Genevieve Goth Graf, Edward K. Williams, Georges LaChance, C. Curry Bohm, and Glen Cooper Henshaw. Lavish color reproductions of the artists' work accompany the biographical sketches. Rachel Berenson Perry's introduction places the Brown County art colony within the broader context of American regional art.
Product Details
• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books; First Edition edition (September 22, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253333547
ISBN-13: 978-0253333544
In an e-mail dated October 2006, Lyn Letsinger-Miller wrote: "He showed in lots of Brown County Art gallery shows, as well as the Hoosier Salon, but he was in the later group of artists to come here, and they haven't earned as much attention as the first wave of artists. He is still highly collectible and comes up routinely at auction."
The Artists of Brown County, 1994
By Lyn Letsinger-Miller
Product Description
From the early 1900s through the 1940s, the scenic hill country of Brown County, Indiana, was home to a flourishing colony of artists who migrated there from urban areas of the Midwest. Now back in print, The Artists of Brown County, first published in 1994, is the classic book on the history of this remarkable art colony.
Following an introduction to "Peaceful Valley," as the area was affectionately called, chapters are devoted to 16 of the artists, including three couples: T. C. Steele, Will Vawter, Gustave Baumann, Dale Bessire, the photographer Frank M. Hohenberger, Adolph Shulz and Ada Walter Shulz, L. O. Griffith, V. J. Cariani and Marie Goth, Carl C. Graf and Genevieve Goth Graf, Edward K. Williams, Georges LaChance, C. Curry Bohm, and Glen Cooper Henshaw. Lavish color reproductions of the artists' work accompany the biographical sketches. Rachel Berenson Perry's introduction places the Brown County art colony within the broader context of American regional art.
Product Details
• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Quarry Books; First Edition edition (September 22, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0253333547
ISBN-13: 978-0253333544
Back at it
I had been researching Anthony (Tony) and I was apparently on the right track when I had a cerebral hemorrhage (stroke) in 2007. So, imagine my delight in finding my computer files and looking at everything that I had saved. Some e-mail messages. And, newspaper clippings. Unfortunately I can no longer remember who sent what. But, I'm putting it out there so that anyone else researching Anthony Buchta has a place to start.
Tony's obituary says that he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Wow.
This reportedly a present-day image (2006) of his studio, Nashville, Indiana. I will work to verify that.
Tony's obituary says that he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Wow.
This reportedly a present-day image (2006) of his studio, Nashville, Indiana. I will work to verify that.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Anthony Buchta paintings
Anthony Buchta, untitled watercolor
Anthony Buchta, "Summer Boyhood Joys," oil
Sunday February 7, 1960
Article from the Indianapolis Star Magazine.
Text version:
Sunday February 7, 1960
The Indianapolis Star Magazine
Anthony Buchta
By Mrs. Leonidas F. Smith
Executive Chairman, Hoosier Salon Patrons Association
HEADLINE:
Sometimes eyes from far away strike farther, deeper, more fervently into Indiana’s basic sentiments than do we who accept them as matter-of-course
TEXT:
For several years Anthony Buchta, artist “with an American story to tell” was a part-time Hoosier.
Now, with a studio in Brown County, he’s a resident artist in Nashville, a full-time Hoosier.
He had been introduced to members of the famous Brown County art colony, eventually made the annual camping ground and become a member of the colony.
Meanwhile he had become a member of the Hoosier Salon.
Before he built his Brown County “place.” Buchta had lived and worked in Chicago.
Buchta was born at Cedar Rapids, Ia. His parents had immigrated from Czechoslovakia. Buchta attended school in Cedar Rapids and spent all his early years there except for a three-year period in which his tried American country life, only to go back to the city.
Encouraged by one of his high school teachers, young Buchta went to Chicago to study art. He had to earn his own living and found a job with a lithograph company.
With close budgeting he managed to live and go to night school at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. After three years he changed to the Chicago Art Institute. During that this time he became a commercial artist.
After a few years as a diversion, he began studying landscape painting and spent two summers with Charles Schroeder who conducted out-door painting classes. From then on he devoted all his spare time to landscape painting.
In Chicago Buchta joined the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, an educational art orgization. “It was here,” he says, “that I had the good fortune to meet some of the finest painters in Chicago. It had a good influence on me, it inspired it.”
Text version:
Sunday February 7, 1960
The Indianapolis Star Magazine
Anthony Buchta
By Mrs. Leonidas F. Smith
Executive Chairman, Hoosier Salon Patrons Association
HEADLINE:
Sometimes eyes from far away strike farther, deeper, more fervently into Indiana’s basic sentiments than do we who accept them as matter-of-course
TEXT:
For several years Anthony Buchta, artist “with an American story to tell” was a part-time Hoosier.
Now, with a studio in Brown County, he’s a resident artist in Nashville, a full-time Hoosier.
He had been introduced to members of the famous Brown County art colony, eventually made the annual camping ground and become a member of the colony.
Meanwhile he had become a member of the Hoosier Salon.
Before he built his Brown County “place.” Buchta had lived and worked in Chicago.
Buchta was born at Cedar Rapids, Ia. His parents had immigrated from Czechoslovakia. Buchta attended school in Cedar Rapids and spent all his early years there except for a three-year period in which his tried American country life, only to go back to the city.
Encouraged by one of his high school teachers, young Buchta went to Chicago to study art. He had to earn his own living and found a job with a lithograph company.
With close budgeting he managed to live and go to night school at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. After three years he changed to the Chicago Art Institute. During that this time he became a commercial artist.
After a few years as a diversion, he began studying landscape painting and spent two summers with Charles Schroeder who conducted out-door painting classes. From then on he devoted all his spare time to landscape painting.
In Chicago Buchta joined the Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art, an educational art orgization. “It was here,” he says, “that I had the good fortune to meet some of the finest painters in Chicago. It had a good influence on me, it inspired it.”
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