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~by Julia Pearson
he fall season will be celebrated by a major exhibit at the Brown County Art Gallery located at the corner of Artist Drive and Main Street in Nashville. More than 80 works from private and museum collections by C. Curry Bohm can be viewed through October 15. It is an art lover’s feast for eyes containing 26 Hoosier Salon paintings and 20 prize winning paintings from juried exhibitions. Noted for his Brown County winter landscapes, other seasons will also be represented among scenes from the Smoky Mountains, and harbors and seascapes of the East Coast. In many ways, this is a “coming home” for the redhaired painter in black eyeglasses. When the Brown County art colony was in its fullness, Bohm and his family made the Hoosier hillside their year-round residence. Claude Curry Bohm was born in Nashville, Tennessee on October 19, 1894. His family moved to New Orleans where Bohm was raised surrounded by the creative lifestyle
C. Curry Bohm
“For Better or Worse” image used on the cover of “My Brown County Home” CD in 1999.
