Dale Philip Bessire (1892-1974)
Dale Bessire grew up in Indianapolis, and studied at the University of Chicago. His time in Brown County was divided between his orchard business and his art career. He became serious as a painter in the late 1920s, and was a founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926. He exhibited throughout the 1930s-50s at the Hoosier Salon; he also exhibited at the Chicago Gallery Association, Century of Progress (Chicago), H. Lieber Co. Gallery, Indiana State Fair, and the John Herron Art Institute.
Information courtesy of Jackson’s Auction Company