We buy vintage art
Fine Estate Art deals in vintage Indiana artwork including pieces related to Brown County, Richmond, Indianapolis / John Herron, The Hoosier Salon, The Hoosier Group and the Indiana Dunes.
If you have artwork you are considering selling, please drop us a note or call us at (317) 253-5910.
Enjoy browsing through the site, we have listings for over 1000 artists. With a few exceptions, nearly all of the artists we deal in have some relationship to Indiana and our state’s rich art heritage. The artists to the right comprise our favorites and we continue to develop biographical information for these and other listings. Please contact us if you can provide us with any additional biographical information.
Location
Fine Estate Art is located at 2158 N. Talbott St., Indianapolis, IN 46202. We’re in downtown (well, Herron Morton Place, to be exact) near 22nd and Meridian St.
Hours:
Tuesday-Friday 11-5, Saturday 11-3 (see below)
Pandemic notes
Fine Estate is currently operating with normal hours and masking is optional.
Summer 2022 Online Rug Auction
Our Summer 2022 Online Rug Auction is live and bidable! We’ve listed about fifty handmade rugs from our former retail operation and they will all sell at no-reserve. The sale will be posted through Sunday, 6/26/22 and beginning at 4p.m., live bidding will take place on all the lots. Pre-bidding (open now) is essentially a proxy bid that will be executed on your behalf all the way through the live bidding process. So bid early and often — there will be a lot of bargains in this sale! You can see the online listing here.
Sixth Annual Curated Sale of Historic Indiana Art
Thank you to all who participated in our auction, in person and online, on 4/3/22 — you can view the results here. The live, attended auction took place on Sunday, 4/3/22 beginning at 1pm at The Arch (607 E. North St., Indianapolis, IN 46204).
New Art Added (6/29/22)
Leota Williams Loop
– Hobnail Pitcher
Ruth Bernice Anderson
– Floral Still Life
Dwight F. Steininger
– Summer Quietude c.1972
Elmira Kempton
– Summer Creek
George Herbert Baker
– November Snow
George Herbert Baker
– Autumn Creek
New Art Added (6/15/22)
George Herbert Baker
– Autumn Cornshocks
Sybil Hunt Connell
– October Reflection
Paul Turner Sargent
– Summer Landscape
Frank Vietor
– Early Pennsy
SOLD
New Art Added (5/18/22)
V.J. Cariani
– Along the Road to Weed Patch
Jerry Smith
– Sycamore Sandbar
Jerry Smith
– Southern Hills
Jerry Smith
– Walnut Street Blossoms
Jerry Smith
– Stronecone Tradition
New Art Added (4/28/22)
Gustave Baumann
– Road to Town c.1917
Otto Stark
– Autumn Creek
Charles Dahlgreen
– Foot of the Ozarks
Glenn Cooper Henshaw
– Forest Creek
New Art Added (4/19/22)
Floyd Hopper
– Gill’s Rock
Floyd Hopper
– After the Rain
Floyd Hopper
– Rockport, Massachusetts
Floyd Hopper
– Two Horses
Floyd Hopper
– Winter Forest
New Art Added (4/7/22)
Clifton Wheeler
– Morning
Clifton Wheeler
– Rural Indiana Road
Charles Dahlgreen
– Foot of the Ozarks
Paul Randall
– Abandoned Road
New Art Added (3/15/22)
George Jo Mess
– Road to Nashville
SOLD
William Snyder
– Along the Road
SOLD
Edward Winslow
– Spring Landscape with Chickens
SOLD
Simon Baus
– Brown County Landscape
SOLD
F.F. Brown
– Church on the Hill
SOLD
New Art Added (2/17/22)
Homer Davisson
– Meadow in the Catskills
SOLD
William Kaeser
– Unemployment Line
SOLD
L.O. Griffith
– Spring at Home
SOLD
L.O. Griffith
– New Orleans
SOLD
Jerry Smith
– Turkey Run Trail
SOLD
Jerry Smith
– Amber Immersion
SOLD
New Art Added (2/10/22)
William Forsyth
– Spring
Otto Stark
– Sunny Woods
SOLD
Otto Stark
– Portrait of a Boy
SOLD
Otto Stark
– Young Trees in Spring
SOLD
Gordon B. Mess
– The Big Tree in Fall
New Art Added (2/4/22)
William Forsyth
– Remnants of Winter
SOLD
Frank Girardin
– Forest in Summertime
SOLD
Simon Baus
– Portrait of a Chinese Boy
Simon Baus
– Portrait of a Woman
Frederick Polley
– Provincetown Town Hall
SOLD
Wibur Meese
– Red Homestead
SOLD
Wibur Meese
– White Homestead
SOLD
New Art Added (1/14/22)
Blanche Bruce
– Summer Garden
SOLD
Clifton Wheeler
– Fall Landscape
SOLD
Glenn Cooper Henshaw
– Trees by the Pond
SOLD
William Turman
– Late Autumn
SOLD
New Art Added (12/28/21)
Harry Davis
– Shrine Hall
SOLD
Harry Davis
– 29 East McCarty St
SOLD
Harry Davis
– Winamac Hotel
SOLD
New Art Added (12/21/21)
Glen Cooper Henshaw
– Indianapolis
SOLD
Glen Cooper Henshaw
– New York Stock Exchange
SOLD
Glen Cooper Henshaw
– Paris
SOLD
Glen Cooper Henshaw
– Bridge Scene
SOLD
Louis Davis
– Sun Will Set
SOLD
Louis Davis
– Reunion
SOLD
Louis Davis
– Night Song
SOLD
New Art Added (12/7/21)
Alexis Jean Fournier
– Daubigny’s First Studio
SOLD
Carl C. Graf
– Winter Creek
SOLD
Lucie Hartrath
– November Snow
SOLD
George Herbert Baker
– Spring Trees
SOLD
Gordan Benjamin Mess
– Autumn at the farm
SOLD
New Art Added (11/29/21)
Alexis Jean Fournier
– Moonlight
SOLD
Glen Cooper Henshaw
– Tree Scene
SOLD
Frederick Polley
– The Valley in Spring
SOLD
Ida Nash Gordon
– Road to the Farm
SOLD
Nellie Augusta Knofp
– Floral Still Life With Mountains
SOLD
Leota Williams Loop
– Frosty Morning
SOLD
New Art Added (11/10/21)
Grant W. Christian
– An Afternoon in Autumn
Charles Raymond Untulis
– Floral Still Life
SOLD
Charles Raymond Untulis
– Floral Still Life
SOLD
Kenneth Reeve
– Summer in Brown County
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