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Susan Ketcham BIOGRAPHY
1841 Indianapolis, Indiana - 1930 Indianapolis, Indiana. Known for: Landscape, seascape, portrait, figure and genre painting, teaching.
Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art... Read full biography
Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana... Read full biography
Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art. She organized the artwork for the Art Association's first exhibition and hired faculty to open its school. For the first year, she taught at the school and then... Read full biography
Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art. She organized the artwork for the Art Association's first exhibition and hired faculty to open its school. For the first year, she taught at the school and then ran summer trips around the U.S. and Europe. With her widowed mother and invalid brother, she left Indiana and spent two and a half years abroad, going to Scotland, Switzerland and the Bay of Naples. For Ketcham, Switzerland was a place of major... Read full biography
Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art. She organized the artwork for the Art Association's first exhibition and hired faculty to open its school. For the first year, she taught at the school and then ran summer trips around the U.S. and Europe. With her widowed mother and invalid brother, she left Indiana and spent two and a half years abroad, going to Scotland, Switzerland and the Bay of Naples. For Ketcham, Switzerland was a place of major inspiration, and she determined to live a life independent of her family. As a middle-aged woman, she enrolled in the... Read full biography
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Merrill Ketcham, Susan M Ketchum
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Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast. She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art. She organized the artwork for the Art Association's first exhibition and hired faculty to open its school. For the first year, she taught at the school and then ran summer trips around the U.S. and Europe. With her widowed mother and invalid brother, she left Indiana and spent two and a half years abroad, going to Scotland, Switzerland and the Bay of Naples. For Ketcham, Switzerl...But wait, there's more...
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