Watch on Soap2day. Brown County, Indiana has been an artistic refuge since the early 1900s. That early artist colony included T.C. Steele, Adolph and Ada Walter Shulz, Will Vawter and Gustave Baumann. BROWN COUNTY ARTISTS documents the legacy of these early artists and then visits the studios of current Brown County artists: Fred Rigley, Larry Spears, Charlene Marsh, William Root and William Zimmerman.