A founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Dale Bessire was a native of Indianapolis and studied at the John Herron Art Institute. He studied business at the University of Chicago and then moved to Nashville, Indiana, in 1914, where he became known as the “artist farmer” because he was successful at both running an orchard and pursuing an art career, primarily as a landscape painter. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon and the Chicago Gallery Association.

Source: Falk, Peter Hastings. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, various editions. American Art Review. December 1994.