Shelbyville artist Robert Root (1863-1937) is best known for his 1918 painting of the Lincoln-Douglas debate held in Charleston in 1858. (This painting is in the Governor's Office in Springfield. A large-scale color reproduction will be exhibited at the new Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum in Charleston. The museum opens July 22, 2000 on the Coles County Fairgrounds.) Root studied at the Cooper Union Art School, New York City, Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, and the Academé Julien in Paris, France. In the early 1890s he returned to live in Shelbyville.
Root made his living primarily from portraits, like that of Eastern's first president, Livingston C. Lord, on view in Eastern's Old Main. Two portraits are included in the Tarble exhibition. But he was also a landscape painter, as this exhibition shows. In the 1920's Root joined Sargent as the two non-Indiana members of the Brown County Artists Association.
Root made his living primarily from portraits, like that of Eastern's first president, Livingston C. Lord, on view in Eastern's Old Main. Two portraits are included in the Tarble exhibition. But he was also a landscape painter, as this exhibition shows. In the 1920's Root joined Sargent as the two non-Indiana members of the Brown County Artists Association.
Shelbyville artist Robert Root (1863-1937) is best known for his 1918 painting of the Lincoln-Douglas debate held in Charleston in 1858. (This painting is in the Governor's Office in Springfield. A large-scale color reproduction will be exhibited at the new Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum in Charleston. The museum opens July 22, 2000 on the Coles County Fairgrounds.) Root studied at the Cooper Union Art School, New York City, Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, and the Academé Julien in Paris, France. In the early 1890s he returned to live in Shelbyville.
Root made his living primarily from portraits, like that of Eastern's first president, Livingston C. Lord, on view in Eastern's Old Main. Two portraits are included in the Tarble exhibition. But he was also a landscape painter, as this exhibition shows. In the 1920's Root joined Sargent as the two non-Indiana members of the Brown County Artists Association.
Root made his living primarily from portraits, like that of Eastern's first president, Livingston C. Lord, on view in Eastern's Old Main. Two portraits are included in the Tarble exhibition. But he was also a landscape painter, as this exhibition shows. In the 1920's Root joined Sargent as the two non-Indiana members of the Brown County Artists Association.
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