That:

The following information was taken from

The Indianapolis Museum of Art

for the

Resource Library Magazine

 

William Forsyth
1854-1935
 
The Bridge, 1927
oil on board
 
Lilly Endowment Inc. Collection
 
Forsyth's home in Irvington was bounded by
Pleasant Run Parkway on the north. During
the summer months he offered a class in
outdoor painting, which included work along
Pleasant Run Creek. This painting gives some
sense of the creek and its woodland setting.
Forsyth painted some of his most colorful
landscapes during the latter part of his career
that are reminiscent of the post-impressionist
style. The colors, that appear to have been
applied straight from the tube, are used not to
define the landscape but to create a striking
composition.

    
Untitled (Alice Picking Flowers),
about 1900 
oil on canvas
 
Lilly Endowment Inc. Collection 
 
In 1897 Forsyth married one of his students,
Alice Atkinson, and eventually settled in the
village of Irvington on the outskirts of
Indianapolis. The couple filled their backyard
with huge flowerbeds. Gardening was a
pastime that the artist and his wife loved.
Alice is shown here picking flowers from an
array of pastel blooms. Beyond the cultivated
area, separated by a fence, is a big open field
where small animals dot the landscape. The
entire floral garden is a mass of broad
brushstrokes mingled with dots of color, while
the middle ground is painted with rapid
strokes. Forsyth, using animated brushwork
and a rich color scheme, captures the natural
beauty of the landscape that he loved.

 

Forsyth lived at 15 S. Emerson and also did a painting called:

"Along Pleasant Run Creek in Irvington".

 

The Art Of Healing

In 1914, just as the golden age of Hoosier art was at its zenith, Indiana ’s leading artists embarked on an extraordinary project that, until today, has been neglected and all but forgotten.

Artists participating in the 1914 mural project: William Forsyth, project director
T.C. Steele
J. Ottis Adams
Otto Stark
Wayman Adams
William Edouard Scott
Carl C. Graf
Clifton Wheeler
Martinus Anderson
Simon Baus
Francis M. Brown
Jay H. Connaway
Helene Hibben
Walter Hixon Isnogle
Emma B. King
Dorothy Morlan 
      And that:

Mr. Belzer, the man know as Chief, helped a group of Irvington boys organize Boy Scout Troop #9 in 19ll, one of the first troops in Indianapolis.

Mr. Belzer was a teacher in Castleton and Indianapolis Public Schools and a principal of School 50.

In 1914 the Central Indiana Boy Scout Council was formed. Mr. Belzer retired from Scout executive in September of 1940 and lived at 320 S. Audubon Rd.