Lot 566 | Theodore Clement Steele (American, 1847-1926), "The Old Mill on the Whitewater River", c.1906;
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oil/canvas, 22" x 32", signed and dated, outstanding original frame. Steele worked as a portrait painter in Indianapolis as early as 1873. He went to Munich in 1880 to study at the Royal Academy. When he returned to the United States, in 1885, he settled in Brookville, a small town in east central Indiana. Steele exhibited at the World~dq~s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, where he gained national exposure for his work. After his first wife died in 1899, he became involved with Selma Neubacher, a teacher. The two eventually moved to Brown County in 1907. Steele exhibited at the St Louis Expo (1904), Buenos Aires (1910), Pan-Pacific Expo (1915), Richmond Art Association, Paris Expo, Society of Western Artists, and the Hoosier Salon. This painting, executed at the end of his Brookville period, reveals a transition in the artist~dq~s work; looser brushwork, and a less rigid composition replaces a degree of academic formality evident in earlier landscapes. We have not seen a more outstanding example of Steele~dq~s landscape painting offered at auction in several years.
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