Patricia Tobacco Forrester
{{short description|American painter}}
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| birth_name = Patricia Ann Tobacco
| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|9|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Northampton, Massachusetts
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|3|16|1940|9|17|mf=y}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
| nationality = American
| education = Smith College, Yale University
| field = Painting
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| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts {{small|(1967)}}
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Patricia Tobacco Forrester (September 17, 1940 Northampton, Massachusetts – March 16, 2011 Washington, D.C.) was an American watercolorist.
Life
She graduated from Smith College with a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1962 where she studied with Leonard Baskin, and from Yale University with a B.F.A. in 1963, and M.F.A. in 1965, where she studied with Chuck Close and Janet Fish.{{cite news|last1=Shapiro|first1=T. Rees|title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester, 70; artist|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/patricia-tobacco-forrester-70-artist/2011/03/23/ABDhnLLB_story.html?noredirect=on|newspaper=The Washington Post|accessdate=23 April 2018}}
She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967.{{cite web |title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester – U.S. Department of State |url=https://art.state.gov/personnel/patricia_tobacco_forrester/ |website=Art in Embassies |access-date=18 June 2021}} In 1992 she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. She won a 2005 and 2009 Artist Grant from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities.{{cite web |url=http://oldtowncrier.com/gallery-beat/1233-patricia-tobacco-forrester-1940-2011 |title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940-2011) |accessdate=2011-07-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326150309/http://oldtowncrier.com/gallery-beat/1233-patricia-tobacco-forrester-1940-2011 |archivedate=2012-03-26 }}
Her works are in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,{{cite web |title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/patricia-tobacco-forrester-1611 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=18 June 2021}} the Brooklyn Museum,{{cite web |title=Daphne's Garden |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/103414 |website=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=18 June 2021}} the Art Institute of Chicago,{{cite web |title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/8570/patricia-tobacco-forrester |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=18 June 2021 |language=en}} British Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.{{cite web |title=Artist Spotlight: Patricia Tobacco Forrester {{!}} Broad Strokes Blog |url=https://nmwa.org/blog/artist-spotlight/artist-spotlight-patricia-tobacco-forrester/ |website=NMWA |access-date=18 June 2021 |date=2017-07-09}}
She lived from the sixties to 1981 in San Francisco, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1982. She was married to Alex Forrester and Paul Ekman.
Forrester died in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2011.{{cite web |title=Patricia Tobacco Forrester Biography |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/720/Forrester/Patricia |website=Annex Galleries Fine Prints |access-date=18 June 2021}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.stevenscottgallery.com/artists_forrester.html Patricia Tobacco Forrester (1940-2011)] on the Steven Scott Gallery site
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Category:20th-century American painters
Category:21st-century American painters
Category:People from Northampton, Massachusetts
Category:Artists from Massachusetts
Category:American watercolorists
Category:Yale School of Art alumni
Category:20th-century American women painters