Collection #:
SC 2208

EVELYN FORSYTH SELBY
MEMOIRS, ca. 1956

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

Processed by
Chris Harter
26 August 1997
Updated 19 November 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

collection INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder

COLLECTION DATES: ca. 1956

PROVENANCE: Evelyn Forsyth Selby, Madison, New Jersey, May 1966

RESTRICTIONS: None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: M 0691, William Forsyth Papers

ACCESSION NUMBERS: 1966.0520

NOTES:

BIOGRAPHICAL Sketch

Evelyn (Forsyth) Selby (1906-1996) was the third daughter of Indiana artist William Forsyth and Alice A. (Atkinson) Forsyth. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and graduated from Shortridge High School in 1924. Evelyn married Robert H. Selby, an artist and former student of her father at the John Herron Art School. The Selbys had one daughter, Susan. They moved to Newark, New Jersey in the late 1950's.

Sources: Indianapolis Star (April 12, 1959). p. 19.
Material in M 0691, William Forsyth Papers

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection contains a 15 page, typewritten paper written by Evelyn Forsyth for the Portfolio Club around 1956. The Porfolio Club was founded in 1890 in Indianapolis to bring together various art interests and to promote a general appreciation of art.

The paper concerns Cedar Farm and the surrounding area. The farm was built by Jacob Kintner in Harrison County, Indiana near Brandenburg, Kentucky. It was owned by members of the Kintner family until 1980. William and Alice Forsyth painted at Cedar Farm in 1897 and 1898, and were married during their first stay there.

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