Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
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Po Box 2137
Little Rock, AR 72202
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Little Rock, AR 72202
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Museums page for Roy Dean De Forest ((1930 - 2007)), known for Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage. Showing 16 museum collections and exhibitions.
Roy Dean De Forest MUSEUMS
1930 North Platte, Nebraska - 2007 Valejo, California. Known for: Modernist naive drollery painting, funk collage.
Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with... Read full biography
Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals. His early work was comprised of larger,... Read full biography
Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals. His early work was comprised of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors with detailed patterns within. However, a consistent philosophy for his mature work has been irreverence for academic convention and a joy in being creative... Read full biography
Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals. His early work was comprised of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors with detailed patterns within. However, a consistent philosophy for his mature work has been irreverence for academic convention and a joy in being creative and finding his own way. In his paintings, he expresses a personal pleasure in how own fantasies from which he constructs "hypothetical beings, situations and worlds". The intent is to "preserve this possible world, with all its animals and creatures,... Read full biography
Roy De Forest became a painter of work not easily categorized because of his independent approach to the profession. He has evolved through several styles from abstraction to funk to realism with subjects ranging from non-objective to realistic animals. His early work was comprised of larger, overlapping, amorphous shapes in bright colors with detailed patterns within. However, a consistent philosophy for his mature work has been irreverence for academic convention and a joy in being creative and finding his own way. In his paintings, he expresses a personal pleasure in how own fantasies from which he constructs "hypothetical beings, situations and worlds". The intent is to "preserve this possible world, with all its animals and creatures, for my own private viewing, fun and enjoyment." . Roy De Forest was born in North Platte, Ne... Read full biography
Roy Dean De Forest - Artist Info
About Roy Dean De Forest: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (16)
All MuseumsCantor Arts Center, Stanford
Lomita Drive/Museum Way
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA 94305Crocker Art Museum
216 O Street
Sacramento, CA 95814Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68102Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Museum of Northern California Art
900 Esplanade
Chico, CA 95926Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
G St. NW & 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014