Biography

De Forest was born in 1930 in North Platte, Nebraska. He moved with his family to Yakima, Washington in 1938 and studied at Yakima Junior College. In 1947 he earned a scholarship to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied with Edward Corbett, Hassel Smith, Elmer Bischoff, and David Park from 1950-52.  De Forest served in the United States Army from 1953-55 and then received his M.F.A from San Francisco State College in 1958. From 1958-65 he taught at various institutions throughout the Bay Area including Contra Costa Junior College, San Francisco State College, Junior Center of Arts and Sciences in Oakland, and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. In 1965 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1965, where he taught alongside colleagues Wayne Thiebaud, William T. Wiley, Robert Arneson, and Manuel Neri for seventeen years. He retired from active teaching at UC Davis in 1982 and moved to Port Costa, California. The Museum currently owns one painting, one sculpture, and one work on paper by the artist. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2006)

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