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Mural and Artist Biography
Artist Name: William Forsyth
Birth Date: October 15, 1854. Ohio
Death Date: March 29, 1935 [of kidney failure]
Title of Work: Untitled Landscape, 1892
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 x 24 inches
Owner: Johnson County Public Library
Location: Johnson County Public Library in the Historical
Room
Biographical Information: Forsyth had three siblings,
a mother, Mary, and a father, Elijah. He married Alice Atkinson
and together they had three daughters. Throughout his life he
won many awards including a $300 award for a marine landscape.
Significance to Johnson County: This piece hangs in the
Historical Room at the Johnson County Public library alongside
one of Cecil Head's works.
Contemporaries of the artist: Forsyth was one of the
artists in the Hoosier Group. The others were T. C. Steele, J.
Ottis Adams, Richard B. Gruelle, and Otto Stark. Forsyth was also
Cecil Head's teacher.
Resources Consulted:
Johnson County Public Library
Indiana State
Museum, William Forsyth
The Passage: return of Indiana painters from Germany, 1880-1905
by Martin Krause. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art and
the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne in Cooperation with Indiana
University Press, 1990.
The Passage: Indiana Artists 1880-1905, Video
Research completed by:
Tonya Allen and Ryne Brutus
Franklin Community High School Students
Kelli Park, Franklin Community High School, Teacher
Mural paintings completed by:
Tonya Allen and Ryne Brutus
Franklin Community High School Students
Kelli Park, Franklin Community High School, Teacher
