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Robert Selby

Robert Hugo Selby (1909 - 1997) was active/lived in Indiana, Texas.  Robert Selby is known for Landscape painting, commercial art.

The following biography was written and submitted by Susan Sklar, daughter of the artist:

ROBERT HUGO SELBY (1909-1997)

American artist Robert Selby was born on January 31, 1909 in the small southwestern Indiana town of Owensville. He showed early talent in fine art and after graduating from Owensville High School, he became a scholarship student at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis from which he received his diploma in 1930. During his years of study at John Herron he worked under the direction of Paul Hadley, Clifton Wheeler and Hoosier Group Artist William Forsyth.

In the summer of 1930, he was awarded a Summer Study Scholarship to the Charles Hawthorne Cape School in Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1930 also saw the beginning of Selby's professional exhibition career with participation in the annual John Herron Indiana Artist's Exhibition, followed in 1931 with entries in the annual Hoosier Salon Exhibition. In 1940 he married William Forsyth's younge   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4760 characters.]  Artist bio

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