First Floor July 9, 2019
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Haan Museum of Indiana Art Room by Room Guide First Floor July 9, 2019 FRONT ENTRY Architecture The closets on either side of the door are glove closets. Women of that period always wore gloves when they went outside. The entire front entry was made in 1760 for the Hubbard-Slater mansion in Norwich, Connecticut, and included in the Connecticut Building at the World's Fair. Paintings The paintings on each side of the front door are by TC Steele, the most important painter who stayed in Indiana to paint. These paintings of his children show how cultured families spent their time in the 1800’s. The piano is still in Steele’s studio in Nashville, IN. The Cellist, TC Steele, 1894, is a painting of his son, Shirley. Daisy at the Piano, TC Steele, 1893. Daisy is his daughter. Furniture Pier table, New York, 1810; alabaster columns and bronze feet Grandfather Clock, 1910; sold by Badger Furniture, Indianapolis Pier Mirror, 1870; ebony with mother of pearl and bronze inlay and brass trim PARLOR History The door between the parlor and the family room was added when the house was moved to Lafayette. Architecture There were no ceiling fixtures in the two front rooms or in any second floor rooms when the Haans purchased the property. The Haans added this antique basket chandelier and a matching one in the office as well as new fixtures in all the second floor rooms. Paintings (counterclockwise from the Great Hall door) All the paintings in this room are by Hoosier Group artists. Steele, Adams and Forsythe all trained in Munich. When they came back, they painted like the piece above the fireplace in the great hall. Their work was very dark and precise, almost like a photograph. Misty Harbor, Richard Gruelle, 1898 Farm Near Vernon, William Forsyth, 1891 o Cover picture of a book about Forsyth by Rachel Perry Still Life with Oranges, TC Steele, 1887 Mysterious River, T C Steele, 1895 o Depicts the Mississinewa River The Mississinewa River, J Ottis Adams, 1895 1 o Both were painted in 1895 along the Mississinewa River on 22” x 29” canvases Suzanne in the Garden, Otto Stark, 1904 o Stark trained in Paris, and married a French girl (Marie). o Marie died after their fourth child was born, and he never remarried. o His children are in many of his paintings, and this is his daughter, Suzanne. Furniture The swivel chair and the apple table were made from clay by Marvin Bartel of Goshen. The three-piece parlor suite has in mother-of-pearl, ivory, and wood inlay, and ribbon and reed trim, and claw feet. The lamp on the corner table is made from alabaster and marble, with a carved alabaster shade. It came from a small auction in Illinois. Coffee table with bronze ormolu, purchased at a Jefferson High School antique show. The Egyptian features date it to about 1890. The small desk was used in the US House of Representatives from 1857 through 1873. o The desk number #83, identifies who used the desk and where it was placed. o Desk #83 was used by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, a strong supporter of abolition. o Show the location of the desk on the seating chart. o It was made by Doe, Hazelton Co. of Boston. GREAT HALL History The area with the fireplace had men’s restrooms at the Fair, and the fireplace was added when the mansion was reconstructed in Lafayette. The other side of the arch had ladies’ restrooms, which were converted to closets and a small restroom. Architecture The 21’ x 40’ great hall reflects the grand scale used throughout the mansion. The center back hall has a split grand staircase with three sets of French doors on the first floor and three on the landing. Paintings German Interior, Samuel Richards, c 1893. Richards went to Munich with TC Steele, and stayed there to continue painting. He contracted tuberculosis a few years later and died in 1899. Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, TC Steele 1918 The Shades, Montgomery County, TC Steele 1888, before it became Shades State Park Home in the Hills, William Forsyth 1899. (nearest drawing room) Furniture 1840 Center Table o It is 12 feet long when closed, and came with five leaves. o Bob installed slides so that it can extend to 32 feet when expanded. The Tiffany Hanging Precision Regulator Clock o It was made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. o As the air temperature rises, the pendulum gets longer, and it would take longer to strike a second. 2 o Tiffany put mercury in the vials to offset that effect. o The mercury expands in the opposite direction so that the center of mass doesn’t change. o That makes the clock accurate to within a few seconds per month. Lodge Chair o It was used by a lodge such as the Elks or Moose Lodge. o It features columns, dentil trim and paw feet. o There’s usually a six-foot Santa Clause in the chair around Christmas time. Orchestral Regina Music Box o This Orchestral Regina music box was made in New York around 1895. o The mechanism allowed disks to be changed easily from the cabinet below. o This model plays 27-inch discs that are stored in the lower drop-front door. o Each disk plays just one song (ask guests to guess how many songs). o It is coin operated because many of these music boxes were put in public places after Thomas Edison’s phonograph became popular. o After you put in the nickel you turn the crank on the right to wind it up. o We are not currently playing the music boxes, except for special events. Easel by Horner Brothers, who also made the table and grandfather clock in dining room, and partners desk in the family room. Works on the center table Square lidded jar – George Debikey o George made this for his wife Ilana (also an artist). o Bob and Ellie always admired it when they visited the Debikeys. o After a few years, George and Ilana brought the jar to Lafayette and offered it to the Haans. o George made a similar jar for Ilana, and put a heart on the bottom so it could never be sold. Bell-shaped vessel – Dick Hay, Brazil IN, retired from Indiana State University. o Dick is a firm believer that his work is “ceramics”, and not pottery – and that if you can eat from it, it isn’t art (“would you eat off the Mona Lisa?”). Wood fired jar – Dick Lehman, Goshen Works by the fireplace Large floor vessels in front of the fireplace – Bill Kremer, Notre Dame FORMAL OFFICE History Reception Room at World’s Fair George Potter used this room as his office. Paintings The Cloisters, T C Steele 1884 - one of the places he lived while studying in Munich Still Life with Flowers, William Merritt Chase Washday, TC Steele, 85 - painted after Steele returned from Munich. Iris and Columbine, Ada Shulz – Ada and Adolph Shulz from Wisconsin moved to Brown County to join the artist colony after T.C. Steele moved there. Untitled landscape, Adolph Shulz Women on the Porch, T C Steele, 1899 - the porch is on the Steele and Adams studio in Brookville 3 Furniture Wooton Desk o Wooton desks were made in Indianapolis between 1872 and 1882 by the William Wooton Desk Company. o Wooton made four grades of desks, and this is the Superior grade, which is the largest and fanciest. o This grade was custom made for rich and famous people around the world. o The Haans looked for a Superior Grade desk for 15 years before finding this in Atlanta, and they’ve never seen another one in person. o There’s a mailbox slot for mail or messages. Empire Side Table, c 1820 Bookcase o Notice the crest at the top of the bookcase. It appears on a cabinet in the kitchen. o The bookcase contains a collection of works by historic Indiana authors. Bronze o Dance of Awakening Day, Tuck Langland, Granger, Indiana (near South Bend) o Langland created very large bronzes for major institutions, including the Federal Reserve in Oklahoma City. o Tuck is the only Indiana artist who is a member of the National Academy of Art as well as a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society. o There are two more Langland bronzes in the Museum and two in the sculpture garden. DRAWING ROOM History The drawing room would have been the formal entertaining room in a mansion like this. At the World's Fair, it was furnished very much like it is now, but without a piano. A 1760 candlestand that was in this room at the World's Fair is now in the Museum. Architecture The crown molding is plaster, molded in about four-foot sections. Notice the ornate trim over the door leading to the side entryway. The columns on each side of the door match the columns in the Great Hall, on the other side of the arch. Chandelier is the only chandelier original to the house at the World’s Fair. Paintings The Moccasin Game, George Winter, 1837 o This documents the Potawatomie Indians who lived near Logansport. o It was painted from life in 1837, before the Indians were forced to move west. o The moccasin game is similar to the shell game, in which a small item is hidden under one of several shells, and players try to figure out which shell. Boys on the Dock, Adam Emory Albright Frosty Morn, J Ottis Adams, 1894 o It was painted during his Prairie Dell (near Muncie) period.