Active as a portrait painter in Indianapolis since 1938, Edmund Brucker has recorded the likenesses of many prominent people around the state, including Dr. and Mrs. Norris Shreve, Mrs. Otis R. Bowen, and Colonel A. Weir Cook. In 1967, the artist retired from his post of almost thirty years as a professor at the Herron School of Art, and he currently lives in Indianapolis. Brucker represents a dwindling group of Indiana artists whose rigorous artistic training has prepared them for the highly skilled profession of portrait painter.
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