Old Schofield’s Mill, a water-powered grist mill, was located at Indianapolis’s northern border near the present-day juncture of Fall Creek and 42nd Street. When compared with the painting Pleasant Run in
the opening gallery of this exhibition (see reproduction below), Steele’s palette has become noticeably lighter and brighter, and his brushstrokes much looser. Steele believed this painting to be one of his
finest to date in capturing Indiana’s natural beauty and charm, and put a steep asking price of $400 on the painting when it was first exhibited.
While living in Indianapolis, Steele often trekked out to the city’s edges to paint scenes in the rural countryside. Later in his career, in order to live surrounded by nature, he purchased a farm in Brown
County south of Nashville, Indiana, and built a house there that he called the “House of the Singing Winds.”
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