Marie Goth (1887-1975)
Schnauzer
Signature: Bottom left
Dimensions work: 49 x 42 cm

Provenance:
-From a private collection

Jessie Marie Goth (August 15, 1887 - January 9, 1975) was an American painter from Indianapolis, Indiana. Best known for her portraits, Goth was the first woman to paint an official portrait of an Indiana governor (Henry F. Schricker) to be installed in the Indiana Statehouse. Goth went to live full-time in Nashville, Indiana in the 1920s and was active in the Brown County Art Colony. She became a charter member and past president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926 and a co-founder of the Brown County Art Guild in 1954. Goth died of injuries sustained during a fall in her home in 1975.

Goth's portraits featured several Hoosier notables, including James Whitcomb Riley, John T. McCutcheon, Paul V. McNutt and Will H. Hays, as well as fellow artists, family members and neighbors in Brown County. Her work is represented in the collections of more than a dozen public art galleries, museums and educational institutions in Indiana. She also exhibited her art at every Hoosier Salon from 1925 to 1975 and in other art exhibitions in Indiana, New York City and elsewhere in the United States. Goth left most of her estate to the Brown County Art Guild to establish and maintain a local art museum in Nashville, Indiana.