Roy De Forest Art

Roy De Forest Untitled (Dog), 1981 Color lithograph with deckled edges. Floated and framed. Pencil signed and numbered from the edition of 125 Frame Included: held in original vintage white frame Wonderful whimsical rare 1981 lithograph by the incredibly popular and beloved Roy de Forest, famous for his paintings and prints of dogs...

Artist: Roy De Forest, American (1930 - 2007) Title: Walking Year: 1987 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 24.5 x 31 in. (62.23 x 78.74 cm)

Hand colored lithograph/painted frame, Edition30 Roy De Forest was one of the preeminent artists of the California Bay area. Usually associated with the "Funk" art movement, De Forest, with appealing irreverence, mades paintings, drawings and sculpture of a wild world of weird humans and amazing beady-eyed dogs. De Forest made three prints at Shark's; his first a woodcut, "Van Gogh in the Tropics" in 1999, "Ode to Rin Tin Tin...

ROY DE FOREST Untitled, 1981 Lithograph on Arches paper with four deckled edges. 22 1/2 × 30 inches Hand signed and annotated Trial Proof, aside from the regular edition of 60 Unfra...

Artist: Roy De Forest Title: Taylor Family Size: 29.5 x 41 Inches Medium: Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink, pencil and glitter on paper, in artist's frame Edition: Original Year: 1995 Notes: Hand Signed and Dated (Twice, Upper Center Sheet and Lower Right Mount) Sold in the Original Artist Made Frame, As Is. Roy De Forest arrived in San Francisco in 1950 to enroll at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). He later went on to teach at the University of California, Davis, where he dedicated nearly three decades of his career. This move to the Bay Area, far removed from the art epicenter of New York, played a significant role in shaping an artistic movement known as "funk," a term coined by Peter Selz of the University of California's Berkeley Art Museum in 1967. This aesthetic celebrated the unconventional, "lowbrow," and seemingly unsophisticated aspects of art. Notably, artists like Jim Nutt...