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Artists — Roseland, Indiana
Daniel Kotz — an artist in Chicago, of Clay Township
Chapman (1880), p. 680, in his father's biography
The township's one named artist stands in his father's sketch. John G. Kotz of Section 29 — born in Germany in 1822, come to Clay Township in 1847, a farmer of 160 acres — had ten children living in 1880, and Chapman lists their stations: "Jacob a wagon-maker and George a blacksmith, both South Bend; Daniel an artist in Chicago." Nothing further of Daniel Kotz is in the record reached — no works, no school, no dates beyond his father's generation — and he prints at exactly that size: a Clay Township son practising art in Chicago by 1880, the first generation's reach out of the farm township, carried on one line of his father's biography. His settler is the Chicago art and directory record of the 1870s–80s, named for a later pass rather than guessed at here.
The town flag — the town's one kept work of design
Town Code §11.01(G); the events file carries the adoption
Roseland's documented work of art is its flag. Designed in September 1976 by Dennis St. Germain and Ella Riffel — an Indiana silhouette carrying the town's name and the year 1916 — and "produced on white polyester gabardine by Mrs. George Eisbrenner and her daughter, Sally," it is a designed civic emblem with named designers and named makers, kept in the town's own code as a point of pride ("Not every city or town has its own flag, but Roseland does"). It prints in this section because it is the only act of visual design the town's record documents whole; its adoption stands in the events file, its designers in the people register, and its image in the pass's image rows at terms-check (RL-IMG-7).
The sweep's negative, and two collisions quarantined
Searched Pass R-2
No other artist or author of Roseland, Indiana was reached. The searches return collisions only, printed so they are not mistaken for the town's: Harry Roseland, a painter who "born and lived his entire life in Brooklyn," carries the name as a surname; Roseland McCain (1912–2003), a teacher, artist and historian of Carroll County, Indiana, carries it as a first name and was born in Canada. Neither has any tie to this town. Beyond Daniel Kotz's single line and the flag's four makers, the town's art record as reached is empty — stated at searched strength, at true size, with the university museums and galleries a mile east left to the files that own them.