Theodore Clement Steele was an American Impressionist painter recognized for his Indiana landscapes. He was born in Owen County, Indiana, and anon moved to Indianapolis subsequent to study in Cincinnati, Chicago and Munich. Steele is considered to be the most imperative of the Hoosier Group of artists and his work is widely gathered by museums and individuals worldwide. T.C.Steele earned his living primarily as a portrait artist and his portraits contain one of notable Hoosier rhymester James Whitcomb Riley and the bureaucrat portraits of quite a few Indiana governors. Steele’s work, which is dated to the Munich time period sported drab colors and high disparity’s, budged en route for a brighter, more vivid color palette after his return to Indiana. In 1898, Steele and J. Ottis Adams purchased a home in Brookville, Indiana, which they christened “The Hermitage.”

Alexander Milne Calder was an American sculptor son of a tombstone carver. He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He started his works in Scotland for sculptor John Rhind, the F/O sculptor J. Massey Rhind though attending the Royal Academy in Edinburgh. He shifted to London and did the job on the Albert Memorial. In 1868 Calder voyage to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, where he took lessons with Thomas Eakins on the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was appointed by architect John McArthur to generate models for the sculpture for the Philadelphia City Hall in 1873, which mission was to reside in Calder for the next 20 years. Alexander Stirling Calder and his grandson Alexander Calder were to be renewed into significant sculptors in the 20th century.

George A. Frost was an American artist of the 19th century. He was by birth in Boston, Massachusetts also had a studio in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, for numerous years. He studied underneath Nicolas de Keyser at the Academy Royale de Belgium in Antwerp. Frost prepared two trips to Siberia, the primary, in 1867, as a associate of the Bristish Columbia Exploring Expedition, with the intention of selecting a route to tie a telegraph line up from San Francisco to Moscow. In 1885, he accompany George Kennan on a next trip to Siberia, during which time he tinted numerous Siberian scenes. This tour was custom-built by The Century Magazine, and Frost’s drawings and photograph from that tour were also use to demonstrate Kennan’s book, Siberia and the Exile System. His paintings were typically landscapes and he is considered a member of the White Mountain art cluster of painters.

George A. Frost and Adelia Dunham had married in 1882. They had two sons: Paul Rubens Frost, a prominent landscape gardener, and Norman Wentworth Frost, a tutor and charter associate of the American Esperanto Club.