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.

Dolls by Murray Alcosser
from the Alice Baber Collection of Contemporary American Art

Ted Pritsker Collection of
American Art Pottery

including works by:
Laura Anne Fry
Lenore Asbury
Maria Martinez

Rookwood Hammered Redwood
by Laura Anne Fry

 

 

Alice Baber Collection of Contemporary American Art
including works by:

Alice Baber
Will Barnet
Audrey Flack
Dorothy Gillespie
Paul Jenkins
Elaine De Konning

 

Summer Air by Yun James Yohe

Edward Stowe Akeley and Anna Akeley Collection of Paintings and Prints including works by:
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz
Gillermo Meza
Jose Clemente Orozco
Misch Kohn
Leonora Carrington
Gunther Gerzso

Death Takes the Children
by Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz

 

 

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

 

 

French Village at Night
by George Ames Aldrich