Marie Goth

Jessie Marie Goth (August 15, 1887, Indianapolis - January 9, 1975) was an American painter from Indianapolis, Indiana. Best known for her portraiture, Goth was the first woman to paint an ascribed portrait of an Indiana governor (Henry F. Schricker) that was installed in the Indiana Statehouse. Goth became a full-time resident of Nashville, Indiana, in the 1920s and was lively in its Brown County Art Colony. She became a charter zealot and former president of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926 and a cofounder of the Brown County Art Guild in 1954. Goth died from injuries sustained in a fall at her house in 1975.

Goth's portraits have featured several Hoosier notables, including James Whitcomb Riley, John T. McCutcheon, Paul V. McNutt, and Will H. Hays, as competently as fellow artists, family members, and neighbors in Brown County. Her statute is represented in the collections of more than a dozen of Indiana's public art galleries, museums, and intellectual institutions. She moreover exhibited her art at all Hoosier Salon from 1925 to 1975, and in other art exhibitions across Indiana, in New York City, and elsewhere in the United States. Goth willed the bulk of her home to the Brown County Art Guild to announce and preserve a local art museum in Nashville, Indiana.