Rachel Berenson Perry is Emeritus Curator of Fine Arts at the Indiana State Museum and author of Barry Gealt, Embracing Nature (IUP, 2012); T. C. Steele and the Society of Western Artists, 1896-1914 (IUP, 2009); and Children from the Hills: The Life and Work of Ada Walter Shulz.

"This meticulously researched and gorgeously illustrated book captures the full arc of the life and work of William Forsyth, who, with this engrossing study by Rachel Berenson Perry, at last receives the limelight that is his due. Forsyth—irascible, competitive, proud, and completely committed to his art—comes vividly to life in Rachel Perry's book. . . . Enlivened throughout with excellent color illustrations and vintage photos, William Forsyth: The Life and Work of an Indiana Artist, provides much more than its title indicates. Perry has given the reader a vivid, intimate encounter with a fascinating human being, whose passions, aspirations, frustrations, and sorrows continue to resonate."—Linda Baden, Associate Director for Editorial Services, Indiana University Art Museum"Rachel Perry, today's leading author on Indiana art hands down, has added this avidly awaited biography of William Forsyth to her eminently readable and thoroughly researched chronicles. Here is a much needed appreciation of the diminutive, pugnacious painter, full of humor, pathos, devotion and plain cussedness as he faced the challenge of living as an artist in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indiana."—Martin Krause, Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

• Acknowledgments Foreword: William Forsyth Was My Grandfather/Susan Forsyth Selby Sklar1. Small in Stature, Large in Spirit, 1854 - 18812. Munich Drawing School, December 1881 - Fall 18833. Munich Painting School and Private Studio, Fall 1883 - Fall 18884. The Beginnings of a Teacher, Fall 1888 - Fall 18975. Creating a Market for Landscapes, Fall 1897 - Summer 19046. Independent Painting While Teaching, 1905 - 19237. The Last Fight, 1923-19358. Forsyth's StudentsConclusionAppendix Forsyth Paintings Exhibited Prior to 1937NotesIndex