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William Forsyth, born October 15, 1854, at California, Ohio, was the first pupil of the Indiana School of Art in 1877 and studied in Munich from 1882 to 1888. He returned to Indiana in September 1888 and came to Fort Wayne to assist J. Ottis Adams in teaching at the young Fort Wayne art school — the classes held in the Hamilton family's carriage house, where his pupils included Jessie Hamilton. Forsyth and Adams then ran the Muncie Art School together from 1889 to 1891.
Forsyth became the Herron Art Institute's principal instructor of drawing and painting from 1906 to 1933 and one of the Hoosier Group's defining landscape painters; his 1916 essay "Art in Indiana" remains a period document of the state's art movement. He died on March 29, 1935.
Sources: Encyclopedia of Indianapolis; ArtSmart Indiana (Indiana Historical Society); Fine Estate Art biography files.