Collections

Founded in 1909 as the Lafayette Art Association by former Rookwood potter Laura Ann Fry, the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette centers on 19th and 20th century American art with a special focus on art of Indiana.

The Permanent Collection contains works by pioneer Indiana artists George Winter, members of the Richmond Group, including John Elwood Bundy and Frank Girardin, Hoosier Group, including T.C. Steele and Otto Stark and members of the Brown County Art Colony, including Will Vawter, Carl Graf, Georges La Chance, and Edward K. Williams. American artists Wayman Adams, Frederick Milton Grant, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Frederick Judd Waugh, and George Ames Aldrich are also represented. The Museum holds special collections of Rookwood pottery by Laura Ann Fry and prints by Latin-American artists Guillermo Meza, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueros.

Ted Pritsker Collection of American Art Pottery (Formerly Laura Anne Fry Collection), including works by:

• Laura Anne Fry
• Jeffrey Chapp
• Scott Frankenberger
• Susan Frost
• Lenore Asbury
• Maria Martinez

Alice Baber Collection of Contemporary American Art, including works by:

• Will Barnet
• Audrey Flack
• Dorothy Gillespie
• Paul Jenkins
• Elaine De Konning

Edward Stowe Akeley Collection of Paintings and Prints, including works by:

• Kathe Kollwitz
• Gillermo Meza
• Jose Clemente Orozco
• Misch Kohn
• Leonora Carrington
• Gunther Gerzso

The Bob and Ellen Haan Collection, including works by:

• Carl Graf
• Gruelle
• T.C. Steele
• George Ames Aldrich
• Barton Hays
• William Forsyth
• Georges LaChance
• Otto Stark