Richmond, Ind. (Indiana)

Francis Focer Brown

A spontaneous, atmospheric depiction of a towering tree in the midwestern countryside is caught in this small-format monotype by Indiana artist Francis Focer Brown. Richmond was a formative city in the early career of Brown, who became a quintessential Hoosier artist helping to establish Indiana’s place in the early 20th century art world.

Richmond, Indiana is located in Wayne county on the estern-central border of Ohio. A magnet for creativity, Richmond has been the hub of many innovative foundations, including as host and home to several leading midwest artists, home of the Wright Brothers, and the “cradle of recorded jazz,” as birthplace of Gennett Records, which recorded the earliest American jazz albums by leading luminaries such as Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.