1965 "Broadside Cut" Abstract Lithograph Darrell Forney (1933-2001) from the collection of Studio MGH

Darrell Forney

1965 "Broadside Cut" Abstract Lithograph Darrell Forney (1933-2001), 1965

Lithograph on paper

7 x 11 in

Paper size: 10.5 x 13.5 in

Edition. 79/90

Signature: Signed, titled, dated in pencil lower margin

Inv: df1-1

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"Darrell Forney taught art at Sacramento City College for 34 years. Darrell Forney may be known for painting crows, along with his whimsical take on picture postcards. But there’s another dimension to his oeuvre. Forney, a Sacramento artist and teacher came of age with Gregory Kondos and Wayne Thiebaud, and his painting of the 1960s show the influence of this artist. Forney left a number of art pieces not seen by many people—either because galleries decided these works didn’t fit the shows they were curating, or because Forney decided not to release them for whatever reason. This may be one reason he was not as well known as his contemporaries.
His works range from large abstract oils from the late 1970s and early 1980s; one of them, Sky, appears to contain the World Trade Center’s twin towers, multiple impact points and a dotted-line trajectory) that presciently anticipate contemporary graffiti art to assembled, collage-like pieces that form humorous non-sequitorial narratives from the 1940s and 1950s, like vintage advertising cartoons, think Charles Atlas meets Marcel Duchamp, and range to funky acrylics with inscrutable subject matter, to archival sketches and block prints, some dating back to the ’50s." - Bradley Gallery

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