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.”
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Obituary 1967
Brown County Democrat
December 21, 1967
TEXT:
Deaths
Anthony Buchta
Anthony Buchta, Nashville, passed away yesterday at 6:00 p.m. at the Bartholomew County hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Buchta had an attack Monday and was several hours before he could get to his telephone. When he did, he called Mr. Bill Hoffman who, on advise of Dr. Robert Seibel took him to the Bartholomew County hospital in Columbus.
Born June 13, 1896 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Buchta was 71 years of age at death.
He was an artist and a member of the Pallette and Chisel Club of Chicago, and a member of the Joliet Art League, as well as a member of the Brown County Art Guild and Associate member of the Brown County Art Gallery.
He attended the St. Agnes Catholic Church in Nashville.
His only survivors are a sister-in-law, Pauline Buchta, and a nephew, John, both of Route 1, Knox, Indiana. There are some cousins in Iowa.
Funeral will be at the Harry Price Funeral Home, Knox, Indiana and interment in the Crown Hill Cemetery there.
December 21, 1967
TEXT:
Deaths
Anthony Buchta
Anthony Buchta, Nashville, passed away yesterday at 6:00 p.m. at the Bartholomew County hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Buchta had an attack Monday and was several hours before he could get to his telephone. When he did, he called Mr. Bill Hoffman who, on advise of Dr. Robert Seibel took him to the Bartholomew County hospital in Columbus.
Born June 13, 1896 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Buchta was 71 years of age at death.
He was an artist and a member of the Pallette and Chisel Club of Chicago, and a member of the Joliet Art League, as well as a member of the Brown County Art Guild and Associate member of the Brown County Art Gallery.
He attended the St. Agnes Catholic Church in Nashville.
His only survivors are a sister-in-law, Pauline Buchta, and a nephew, John, both of Route 1, Knox, Indiana. There are some cousins in Iowa.
Funeral will be at the Harry Price Funeral Home, Knox, Indiana and interment in the Crown Hill Cemetery there.
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.
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.
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.
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