Richmond Art Museum
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The Richmond Art Museum was founded in 1898 as the Art Association of Richmond, Indiana. Its collection includes important works of American Impressionists, particularly from the Hoosier Group and the Richmond Group and the Taos School. Important ceramics including a significant collection of the work of the Overbeck sisters are part of the collection housed in McGuire Memorial Hall at Richmond High School. The museum is believed to be the only public art museum connected with a public high school. An icon of the collection is a very large self portrait of the American impressionist William Merritt Chase painted for the museum in 1915-16.
In addition to important Indiana artists, some of the more important artists represented in the collection are:
- William Merritt Chase
- Frank Duveneck
- Henry Mosler
- Walter Shirlaw
- William Aiken Walker
- William Wendt
- Charles Curran
- William Victor Higgins
- Ben Foster
- Robert Reid
- Asher Durand
- Paul Weber
- Harry Mills Walcott
- Childe Hassam
- Adam Emory Albright
- E. Irving Couse
- Albert Groll
- Gordon Grant
- Leonard Ochtman
- John C. Johansen
- Louis Betts
- Guy Carleton Wiggins
- Jane Peterson
