The Young Artist

Ada Walter Shulz
Circa 1925
Oil on board
17 x 14 inches

Other Information
Framed dimensions: 20 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
Inscription: Signed lower left
Provenance: Don and June Goodwin Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana (purchased through Byron & Son Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 16, 1988, original receipt included); thence by descent.
Exhibited: Indianapolis, Indiana, H. Lieber Co. Gallery exhibition, September, 1925 (as “In the Country”); Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University, Fine Arts Building, “The Hoosier Group, Inc. 2nd Annual Exhibit: Down in the Hills,” July 7–August 9, 1985 (label verso); Charleston, Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center, “Paul Sargent, Robert Root, and the Brown County Art Colony,” January 28–February 26, 1995; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana State Museum, “Children and Sunlight: The Paintings of Ada Walter Shulz,” February 6–May 31, 1998; Nashville, Indiana, Brown County Art Gallery, “Adolph and Ada Shulz: Nashville’s First Power Couple,” 2011 Collectors’ Showcase,” October 8–9, 2011.
Literature: Illustrated in color on the cover of the brochure accompanying the 1998 Indiana State Museum, as well as on the rack card; “Children of the Hills: The Life and Work of Ada Walter Shulz,” by Rachel Perry, 2001, illustrated in color on p. 47, plate 17; illustrated in color in the catalog accompanying the Collectors’ Showcase exhibition listed above.
One of the most desirable, exhibited, and illustrated examples by this important Brown County artist. Excellent condition, period frame.
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