Theodore Clement Steele, American, 1847–1926
c. 1900
Oil on canvas
T.C. Steele painted this portrait about 1900 of his friend and colleague J. Ottis Adams. Steele and Adams, along with fellow Indiana painters William Forsyth, Otto Stark and Richard Gruelle, comprised the “Hoosier Group” during the period 1880 – 1915.