Original Oil on canvas painting of the subject : Old world meets the New World by Edmund Brucker of Indiana. The painting measures 57 inches wide x 44 inches tall. EDMUND BRUCKER, American, 1912 –1999. Edmund Brucker was active as a portrait painter in Indianapolis from 1938 until his death, and he recorded the likenesses of many prominent people around the state, including Dr. and Mrs. Norris Shreve, Mrs. Otis R. Bowen, and Colonel A. Weir Cook. In 1967, the artist retired from his post of almost thirty years as a professor at the Herron School of Art. Brucker represented a dwindling group of Indiana artists whose rigorous artistic training prepared them for the exactitude of portrait painter.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. He studied art at the Cleveland School of Art and graduated in 1934. His teachers included Henry Keller, Rolf Stoll, and Paul Travis. In 1938, Brucker joined the faculty of the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught until his retirement in the early 1980s. His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Herron Art School, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Butler Institute of American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art.

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