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Susan Ketcham

Susan Merrill Ketcham (1841 - 1930) was active/lived in Indiana, New York, Maine.  Susan Ketcham is known for Landscape, seascape, portrait, figure and genre painting, teaching.

Born to a pioneering Indiana family, Susan Ketcham became a landscape and marine painter and teacher, working primarily on the East Coast.  She was one of eighteen women who in 1883 founded the Art Association of Indianapolis, an entity that through her early efforts helped lead to the Indiana Museum of Art and the Herron School of Art.  She organized the artwork for the Art Association's first exhibition and hired faculty to open its school.  For the first year, she taught at the school and then ran summer trips around the U.S. and Europe.  With her widowed mother and invalid brother, she left Indiana and spent two and a half years abroad, going to Scotland, Switzerland and the Bay of Naples.  For Ketcham, Switzerland was a place of major inspiration, and she determined to live a life independent of her family.

As a middle-aged woman, she enrolled in the Art Students League in New York in 1888, and that same year was elected a life member.  She st   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2128 characters.]  Artist bio

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