About Claude Curry Bohm

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    C. Curry Bohm, a photographer, painter, and printmaker whose artistic career spanned five decades, was an integral part of the Chicago art scene in the 1920s and a very prominent part of the second generation of the Brown County, Indiana art colony from his first visit in 1920 until his death, serving as a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association and helping to transform “Brown County into one of the nation’s outstanding art colonies.”

    The short, blonde-haired, gray-eyed Curry inherited some of his penchant for paints from his father Robert W. Bohm, a noted portrait, mural, and scenery painter whose family hailed from Louisiana where he was born in 1868 in New Orleans. Between 1886 and 1900, the...

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