Anthony Buchta, untitled watercolor
Anthony Buchta, "Summer Boyhood Joys," oil
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Anthony Buchta paintings
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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