早晨的斯科菲尔德老磨坊Morning–Old Schofield’s Mill 西奥多·克莱门特·斯蒂尔（Theodore Clement Steele）油画作品欣赏

   Old Schofield’s Mill, a water-powered grist mill, was located at Indianapolis’s northern border near the present-day juncture of Fall Creek and 42nd Street. When compared with the painting Pleasant Run in the opening gallery of this exhibition (see reproduction below), Steele’s palette has become noticeably lighter and brighter, and his brushstrokes much looser. Steele believed this painting to be one of his finest to date in capturing Indiana’s natural beauty and charm, and put a steep asking price of $400 on the painting when it was first exhibited.

   While living in Indianapolis, Steele often trekked out to the city’s edges to paint scenes in the rural countryside. Later in his career, in order to live surrounded by nature, he purchased a farm in Brown County south of Nashville, Indiana, and built a house there that he called the “House of the Singing Winds.”

早晨的斯科菲尔德老磨坊Morning--Old Schofield's Mill 西奥多·克莱门特·斯蒂尔（Theodore Clement Steele）油画作品欣赏

早晨的斯科菲尔德老磨坊Morning--Old Schofield's Mill细节图欣赏：