The Hoosier Group: Indiana's First Impressionists Exhibition

Having cultivated the most extensive collection of Hoosier Group paintings in the world, the Haan Museum of Indiana Art is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition featuring figural works by esteemed painters T.C. Steele, Richard Gruelle, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams, and Otto Stark. 

While the five never formally organized as a group, they were forever linked after Chicago art critic Hamlin Garland referred to them as the ‘Hoosier group’ in his praises of an 1894 exhibition. They celebrated the quiet beauty and charming mundanity of life in Indiana, adapting the impressionist techniques they learned as students in Munich to better suit the landscapes of their native home. As a result, the painters developed a distinctly American style of impressionism, for which they are now so well known, and the Hoosier Group ultimately became the premier representatives of ‘modern art’ in the Midwest.

Please join us for:

     The Opening Reception
     Thursday, August 29, 2024, 6PM - 8PM

     The Lunch-&-Learn 
     Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 11:30AM - 1PM 

     An Exclusive Evening Event 
     Monday, October 21, 2024, 6PM - 7:30PM 

     The Exhibition 
     August 29 - December 29, 2024