Indianapolis IN: Indiana Historical Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket; Spine ends rubbed. Three or four dogeared pages. A few instances of faint highlighting. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Chronicles the life and work of Theodore Clement Steele, the most prominent of the Hoosier school of painters. Ten color plates including frontispiece and sixty-six b&w photos reproduce Steele's landscapes and portraits. Excerpts of letters and first-person accounts interspersed in the text. Green cloth on boards with gilt cover illustration and gilt title to spine. No DJ, as-issued. Well-written, well-indexed; an essential reference for the collector. Covers are *not* bowed, the bowing being very common to this book. A clean, tight book, bright pages, appears NF but for the few flaws, very conservatively VG.; 8vo; 209 pages .