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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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Seascapes, Seasides
Art Association
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Charles Woodbury
- •William Merritt Chase
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Hoosier Art Salon-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts