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.”