The Pioneer of the Wabash River Valley Born in Portsea Island, United Kingdom, George Winter was an English-born landscape and portrait artist who immigrated to the United States in 1830. After studying art at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, before settling in Logansport, Indiana, in 1837. Winter became one of Indiana's first professional artists and is considered the state's most signific…