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Dogmatic
Drawing

1970
23 x 33 in. (58.42 x 83.82 cm)

Roy De Forest (North Platte, Nebraska, 1930 - 2007, Vallejo, California)

Object Type: Drawing
Medium and Support: Mixed media on paper with painted frame
Credit Line: Gift of Earlene and John Taylor
Accession Number: 2004.37

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Renegade Humor (2012)

Roy De Forest is best known for his vibrantly colored, whimsical paintings of wild-eyed, wolflike dogs frolicking in mythical landscapes. His distinctive canvases are almost always dotted with nipples of paint squeezed directly from the tube—a technique he developed while teaching at the University of California, Davis in the 1960s and 1970s.

His works on paper exhibit the same sense of playfulness that characterizes his large-scale paintings. In Dogmatic, two canine faces are surrounded by a dark aura whose featherlike extensions suggest a Native American headdress. Caricatured portraits of humans and dogs that look remarkably akin form a border on the page. The title, a play on words, suggests that authority rests with the dogs.

Exhibition

Nuts and Who's: A Candy Store Sampler, August 11, 2023 – February 25, 2024, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Renegade Humor, February 3, 2012 - July 8, 2012, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight and South Metro A Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

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  • Image Dimensions: 23 x 33 in. (58.42 x 83.82 cm)

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