Roy De Forest

American (1930–2007)

About the artist:

BORN: North Platte, Nebraska, 1930. DIED: Port Costa, California, 2007 Born in North Platte, Nebraska to migrant farm workers, Roy De Forest grew up in Yakima, Washington and attended junior college there. In 1950 he moved to California to study at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), where he earned a bachelor's degree (1953). After serving in the US Army, De Forest went on to earn his master's degree (1958) at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). De Forest's first exhibition was in 1955, and the work reflected the influence of Abstract Expressionism, along with a developing interest in assemblage. By the early 1960s De Forest's work had grown more representational, and began to include suggestions of maps and motifs evocative of persons and animals. By the late 1960s this transformation was nearly complete, as De Forest's work now freely mixed patterns and non-objective elements along with recognizable forms such as people, landscapes, and most notably, animals. De Forest's work also began to reflect his surroundings and life in Port Costa, California, with elements such as old brick buildings, birds, and dogs becoming more commonplace in his compositions. As the physical forms in De Forest's work grew more recognizable, the origins and relationships between such grew more personal, suggestive of dream worlds and developing personal mythologies. De Forest taught at the University of California, Davis from 1965 to 1992, along with fellow artists Robert Arneson, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley. On the occasion of the exhibit "You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Art Faculty," Renny Pritikin of the Nelson Gallery said "History was made in the Central Valley in the early '60s when five great artists came together on the same faculty for over a decade and changed the nature and perception of art in California forever."[2] A retrospective organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art toured in 1975. During the 1960s, UC Davis became a hub for the Funk art movement, with many of the artists associated with this movement either teaching at Davis, or having studied there. De Forest, along with Arneson, Wiley, and David Gilhooly often exhibited together under this heading, including semi-regular shows at the Candy Store Gallery in nearby Folsom, California. Another important figure in the Funk art movement was Clayton Bailey, who was De Forest's neighbor, friend, and collaborator. De Forest, along with Bailey, was also a key figure in the development of Nut art, a new artistic genre that paralleled Funk art, and which flourished primarily in the late 1960s and early 1970s in northern California. The term Nut art was coined by De Forest (in conversation with poet and critic David Zack) to describe an approach to art making that embraced humor and personalized fantasy worlds. De Forest died in Vallejo, California after a short illness. Though primarily known as a painter, De Forest worked in other mediums as well, including sculpture, printmaking, and fabric. Several of his assemblage pieces, in addition to a few paintings, are in the diRosa collection. Roy De Forest is best known for his comic-like patchwork regionalist (California) style, often depicting dogs and other figurative content in his art. His painting, Untitled (Devils/Dogs) from 1989-1990 in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art is typical of this style, and like many of his paintings, Shop prints by Roy De Forest online. EDUCATION: California School of Fine Arts, 1950 - 1952. San Francisco State College, California, BA 1953; MA 1958. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: “Roy De Forest: A Simple Life,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2013. “Roy De Forest: A Figure of Our Times,” Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 2012. “Bark!” John Natsoulas Gallery, St. Davis, CA, 2012. “Painting the Big Painting,” Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 2009. "Roy De Forest: A Memorial Exhibition, Paintings, Drawings and Constructions 1965-2007," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2008. "Roy De Forest: Recent Paintings," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, 2006. "Roy De Forest: New Paintings," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2005-2006. “New Works on Paper,” Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2003. "A Slow Time in Arcadia: Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley 1960-2002," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2002. “Roy De Forest & Gaylen Hanson,” Paris Gibson Square Museum, Great Falls, MT; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, 1998-2001.* “New Constructions,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1997. “New Paintings and Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1993. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 1992. Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, 1990, 1993. Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1990. Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1990. “Roy De Forest,” Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1989. Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1989. Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1988, 1991. Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA, 1988, 1990.* Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1988. “Animal Images,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987.* “New Paintings, Drawings & Constructions,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1985.* “The Early Constructions,” Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis; University of Riverside, California: 1983-1984. Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1983. Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA, 1982. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA, 1980, 1983. Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, 1980. Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR, 1980. Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, 1980. Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1980. E.B. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1980.* Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 1980. 605 East 3rd Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1979. Fresno City College, Fresno, CA, 1979. Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 1979. Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, 1978. Institute of Contemporary Art (with Robert Hudson), Boston, MA, 1977, 1978. Clark / Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1977, 1978, 1981. Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1976. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, 1975. Retrospective exhibition. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Fort Worth Art Center, TX; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: 1974-1975* Shasta College, Redding, CA, 1974. Galerie Allen, Vancouver, Canada, 1974. Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France, 1974, 1977, 1981, 1987. Glenbow-Alberta Gallery, Calgary, Canada, 1974. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1973, 1977. Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978. Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979. Gallery Marc, Washington, D.C., 1971. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, 1971. Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA, 1971. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1969. Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 1969. Art Gallery, City College of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, 1967. Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1966, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1985.* Peninsula Gallery, Menlo Park, CA, 1966. San Francisco Art Association Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1962. Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967. Stone Court Gallery, Yakima, WA, 1959, 1960. East & West Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1955, 1958, 1965. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: “Left Coast / Third Coast” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2014 “Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California” Oakland Museum of Art (in conjunction with SFMOMA), Oakland, CA, 2014-15. “What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present“ RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI, 2014-15. “The Merry-Go-Round Show of 1955,” 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2013. “Ink,” Sacramento City College’s Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2012. “One Must Know the Animals,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, 2012. “Renegade Humor,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012. “Drawings,” Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL 2012. “Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures by Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Roy DeForest, Peter Saul, and William T. Wiley,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. “Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 2011. “Group Show: Size Matters: Large-Scale and Small-Scale Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2011. “Summer Group Show: New and Classic,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2010. “Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2010. “Summer Group Show,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2009. "Inside/Outside," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2007 "Figure It! The Human Factor in Contemporary Art," Clay Center for Arts and Sciences, Charleston, WV, 2007. "Artful Jesters," The Painting Center, New York, NY; Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, 2006.* “National Drawing Invitational,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2004.* “Multiple Artists,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 2003. "Three Masters: Roy De Forest, Jack Earl, Richard Shaw," Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2001-2002. "Art in the 'Toon Age: Selections from the Collection," Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2002. Curated by April Kingsley.* "From Pop to Op: American Art in the 60s," Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, Anneville, PA, 2001. "2000 Collector's Show," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 2000. “The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2000.* "Frogs and Dogs: Roy De Forest and David Gilhooly," Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2000. “Cats and Dogs,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1999. “Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, 1999. “Annual Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1998. “Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1998. “1997 Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1997-98. “1996 Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1996. “A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1997. “Mixing Business with Pleasure,” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1997. “It Figures,” SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX, 1996. “Going Places,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1996. “Out of Toon: Another Look at Art and Comics,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1996. “Artful Humour,” Gallery in the Champion Lobby, Stamford, CT, 1996. “California in the 1960’s: Funk Revisited,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1995. “Group Exhibition,” Hebrew Home for the Aged, Riverdale, NY, 1995. “Paper View,” Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 1995. “Masters of Mischief II,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York , NY, 1994. “Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections,” Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 1994. “X-Sightings,” Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1994. “In Praise of Folly,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, 1992. “Large Scale Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1992. “40th Anniversary Exhibition: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1992.* “Pastels,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY, 1991. “Out of Abstract Expressionism,” Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1991.* “On the Move,” Champion Gallery, Stamford, CT, 1991. “Let's Play House,” Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, 1990. “Gardens, Real and Imagined,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY, 1989-1992.* “Drawings For Funk's Sake!” Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA, 1989. “ A XX Century Bestiary,” Renee Fotouhi Fine Art, Ltd., New York City, 1989. “Mark Bulwinkle / Roy De Forest,” Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1989. “Selections 2 from The Honolulu Advertiser Collection,” Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, 1989. “The Nature of the Beast,” Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 1989.* “Private Reserve,” Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1988. “The Importance of Drawing,” Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987. “Animal Images: Roy De Forest/Lisbeth Stewart,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987. “The Call of the Wild,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1987. “Creatures Great and Small,” Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY, 1987. “Dog Days of August,” Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY, 1986. “American Art Today: The Figure in the Landscape,” Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1986. “Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1986.* “1986 Collector’s Show,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1986. “Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art,” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1985.* “Pastel,” Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, 1985. “Skowhegan Visiting Artist Exhibition,” Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME, 1985. “Five Contemporary Painters: Azaceta, Brown, De Forest, Dugan, Saul,” CSCS Art Gallery, Stanislaus, CA, 1985. “Collaborative Prints from American University Print Shops,” Gallery of the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, 1985. “Impact Images,” Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania, PA, 1985. “Contemporary American Wood Sculpture,” Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1985. “Visiting Artists: Painters and Printmakers,” Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO, 1985. “Twentieth Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, 1984.* “The Studio,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1984. “Drawings by Painters,” Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982.* “The West as Art,” Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 1982. “Northern California Art of the Sixties,” De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, 1982.* “Twentieth Century Images of George Washington,” Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York, NY, 1982.* “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982.* “Remember It’s Only Art,” Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, CA, 1981.* “Twentieth Century Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1981. “100 New Acquisitions, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1981. “Welcome to the Candy Store!” E.B. Crocker Museum Invitational, Sacramento, CA, 1981.* Alumnae Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1981. “The Image of the House in Contemporary Art,” University of Houston, Houston, TX, 1981.* “American Painting of the 60’s and 70’'s,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 1981. “Humorous California Artists,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1981. “Drawings: The Pluralistic Decade,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1980.* Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, 1980. “Visions and Figurations,” California State University, Fullerton, CA, 1980.* “The Candy Store,” De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA, 1980. “American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980,” Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1980. “Figurative Art: Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Roy De Forest, Janis Provisor, Gaison, and Wurm,” Mandeville Gallery, University of California, La Jolla, CA, 1980. Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1980. “The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1980.* Tamarind Institute Invitational, Albuquerque, NM, 1980. “Large Scale Works on Paper,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1979. “Five from Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery,” Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, 1979. National Drawing Annual, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, 1979. Works from the Collections of Mills Alumnae, Mills College, Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1979. “Decade in Review: Selections from the Seventies,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1979. “Artists Working in Wood,” University of California, 1978. “6th International Exhibition of Original Drawings,” Museum of Modern Art, Yugoslavia, 1978. “Dog Images Through the Century,” Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Downtown Center, San Francisco, CA, 1978. “West Coast Artists,” New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1978. “Works on Paper,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1978. “Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1977-78. “Recent Works on Paper,” Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 1977-78. “Late Twentieth Century Art: The Lewis Foundation,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1977.* “Works on Paper,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 1977. Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, 1977. “New in the Seventies,” University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1977.* “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1976-77.* “6 From California,” Washington State University Museum, Pullman, WA, 1976.* “3 From California,” Dalhouse Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1976.* “Art on Paper: 1975,” Dillard Paper Company & Weatherspoon Guild, Greensboro, NC, 1975.* Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, 1975. “American Drawings 1963-1971,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1973.* “1973 Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1973.* “Extraordinary Realities,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1973. “California Works on Paper: 1950-1971,” University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1972. “Nut Art,” Art Department Gallery, California State College, Hayward, CA, 1972. “Sacramento Sampler I,” E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 1972. “Sacramento Delta Show,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1972. “Crown Point Press,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1972. “A Twentieth Century Bestiary,” Art Department Gallery, San Jose State College, San Jose, CA, 1972. Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1971. “Roy De Forest: Drawings, James Pernotto: Sculpture, Kenneth Price: Silkscreens,” Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1971. “Symbol and Vision,” Reese Paley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1970. “Acid Painters of San Francisco,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1970. “The Spirit of the Comics,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1969.* Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, CA, 1968, 1970, 1972. “On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 -1962,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1968. “The Grotesque Image,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1967. “Selections 1967: Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art,” Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1967. “Funk,” Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1967. “Contemporary Prints from Northern California,” IBM Gallery, New York, NY; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA: 1966. “2 Dimensional Sculpture, 3 Dimensional Painting,” Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1966. “IIe Salon International des Galeries Pilotes,” Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, France, 1966. “Imagadventure,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1965. “Young California Artists,” Macy’s, New York, NY, 1965. “67th American Exhibition,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1964.* “4 California Artists,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1964. “Winter Invitational,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, 1962,1963, 1964. “Fifty California Artists,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1962-63. “Small Collages, Constructions and Watercolors by Roy De Forest, Tony De Lap, Fred Martin and Nell Sinton,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1962. “Some Points of View -’62,” Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, 1962. “The Arts of San Francisco,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1962. “A Look at Recent Bay Area Art,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1960. “New Forms -New Media I,” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, 1960. “A Rationale for Modern Art,” American Federation of Arts, New York, NY, 1959. Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1958, 1959. “6 San Francisco Painters,” Brata Gallery, New York, NY, 1958. “Annual Watercolor, Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, 1957. “Survey of Pacific Coast Art,” Reed College, Portland, OR, 1957. “Action 3,” Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1957. “Painting and Sculpture Now: Some Contemporary Statements by Artists of the Bay Region,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1957. III Bienial, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955. “Action III,” Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1955. Second Annual Group Show, The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1955. “A New Language in Painting,” Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY, 1954. Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1953-54, 1957-58, 1960-61, 1963. King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1953. SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS continued: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Roy De Forest

American (1930–2007)

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About the artist:

BORN: North Platte, Nebraska, 1930. DIED: Port Costa, California, 2007 Born in North Platte, Nebraska to migrant farm workers, Roy De Forest grew up in Yakima, Washington and attended junior college there. In 1950 he moved to California to study at

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