Born in New London, Connecticut, on January 24, 1886 and died in Erie, PA. on January 25, 1924. He received his formal education at the Arts Students' League in New York with Charles Woodbury and Birge Harrison. Selden also studied with Frank Duvenech in Cincinnati, Ohio. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1910 and 1911. He was a very active member of various organizations: Lyme Art Association, American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists Association, Artists Fun Society NY, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the National Arts Club (established in 1898 in New York to foster applied arts) and the Salmagundi Club (established 1871) which was an early, very important art club in New York City. It heldregular exhibitions and housed collections. Membership was by election.

Selden was awarded the Flagg Prize at the 1929 Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and again in 1931. He later became Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Connecticut College.

Listed:

Who's Who in American Art page 557

E. Benezit Volume 9, Page 914

Dictionary of American Artists of the 19th and 20th Century Page 295

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition Records Page 432

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton