{"id":200,"date":"2016-05-06T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=200"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T18:16:51","slug":"steeles-love-for-his-first-wife","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-brookville-autumn\/steeles-love-for-his-first-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele&#8217;s Love for His First Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_204\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/download-5.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-204\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-image-204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/download-5.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Steele, Mary (Steele\u2019s wife), John Ottis Adams, Adams\u2019s wife, and friends. This photo was taken at Metamora, Indiana in 1898, shortly before Mary died.\" width=\"512\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/download-5.jpg 512w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/download-5-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/download-5-315x300.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Steele, Mary (Steele\u2019s wife), John Ottis Adams, Adams\u2019s wife, and friends. This photo was taken at Metamora, Indiana in 1898, shortly before Mary died. http:\/\/images.indianahistory.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">T.C. Steele married his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Lakin, in 1870. Steele and Mary were married for twenty-nine years before she passed away in November, 1899. Mary died at the age of forty-nine and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for five years before her death. Mary\u2019s illness affected Steele\u2019s work, because he constantly worried about her. Later after her death, Steele told his son, \u201cYou know, of course, that I owe everything to your Mother. It was she who made a landscape painter of me, instead of a portrait painter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-brookville-autumn\/\">Back to the main page on\u00a0T. C. Steele, Brookville Autumn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-brookville-autumn\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/TC-Steele-Brookville-Autumn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TC Steele Brookville Autumn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.C. Steele married his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Lakin, in 1870. Steele and Mary were married for twenty-nine years before she passed away in November, 1899. Mary died at the age of forty-nine and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-brookville-autumn\/steeles-love-for-his-first-wife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":198,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/200\/revisions\/450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}