TitleTorches
Artist
Patricia Tobacco Forrester
(American, 1940 - 2011)
Date1996
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet size: 39 3/4 x 40 in.
Framed: 45 3/4 x 45 3/4 x 2 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Patricia Tobacco Forrester"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, January 15, 1997
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1997.2
Label TextAlong with Carolyn Brady, Susan Shatter and Don Nice, Forrester was one of the artists most responsible in the early 1970s for the adaptation of watercolors to a scale more typically associated with works on canvas. At that time she became well-known for her bird’s eye views of exotic foliage in which she employed brilliantly saturated colors which bleed and coalesce into intricate light-dappled landscapes. For Forrester, the “painting is not the relating of a specific scene, but an expression of the intensity of my response to it. . . . I enjoy and exploit the physicality of watercolor as it swirls, reticulates, and dries in some approximation to what I am seeing and trying to make. . . . It can be finely controlled yet also allowed to explode in swirls and rivulets. . . . The accidental nature of watercolor - the fact that paint moves across the paper - is my partner in the work.”
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