Patricia Tobacco Forrester
Biography

Born
Northampton, MA

Education

1965                Yale University, M.F.A.
1963                Yale University, B.F.A.
1962                Smith College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa
1961                Yale Summer School of Music and Art

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions

Patricia Tobacco Forrester | Observed and Invented | 2007

Solo Exhibitions

2007               Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (and 2001, 1998, '91, '89, '87)
2005               Steven Scott Gallery, Owing Mills, MD (and '97, '92)
2003               AVC Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2002               Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC (and 1999, '96, '93)
1997               Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (and 1994)
                        Frick Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1996               Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1992               Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY (and 1990, '89, '87, '85)
1991               Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
                        New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1990               Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC (and 1988, '81, '79, '78)
                        Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
                        New York Stock Exchange Building, New York, NY
1988               Sierra Nevada Museum, Reno, NV
                        Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
1987               Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA
1985               Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984               New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
                        University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
                        Frick Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, PA
                        Contemporary Art Center, Honolulu, HI
1983               William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                        Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY (and 1982, '81, '79, '78)
1981               Sebastian Moore Gallery, Denver, CO
1980               William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA (and 1974)
1977               M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1975               Smith College Fine Arts Building, Northampton, MA
1970               Capper's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1968               Trutton Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967               San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2007               "Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003               “Branching Out,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002               “From Nature, Part II,” A.V.C. Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2000               “Gardener’s Delight,” National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
                         “Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition,”
                        Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; traveled to the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL;
                                  Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
                        “Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century,” Meridian International Center,
                                  Washington, D.C; travelled to Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia, and Iran
                        “Review and Preview,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                        “New Work, New Space,” Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                        "National Academy of Design ‘74th Annual Exhibition," New York ,NY (award)
                        “172rd Annual Exhibition,” National Academy of Fine Arts, New York, NY (William A. Paton Prize winner)
                        “Contemporary Color,” the Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
                        “48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition,” New York, NY
                        “Deep Water,” Sarasota Visual Arts Center, Sarasota, FL
1996               “Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas,”Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY (travelled)
                        “American Academy of Arts & Letters Annual Purchase Exhibition,”
                        New York, NY
                        “National Academy of Design 171st Annual Exhibition Prize,” New York, NY
                        “Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists,” Currier Gallery of Art,
                                  Manchester, NH; travelled to National Academy of Design, NY
1995               “Flowers!,” Babcock Gallery, New York, NY
1994               “American Masters of Watercolor,” Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1993                Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables: The Contemporary Still Life," Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID
                        "168 Annual Exhibition," National Academy of Design, New York, NY
                        "Contemporary Realist Watercolors," Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
                        “Still Life: 1963-1993,” Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991-92         "American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952-1991," the Japan Association of Art Museums;
                                 traveled to Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama;
                                 the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga;
                                 Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi
                        "New Viewpoints: Contemporary American Women Realists," Consular Residence,
                                 1992 Universal Exposition, Seville, Spain (organized by the National Museum of Women
                                 in the Arts, Washington, D.C.)
1991               "Get Real," Center of Contemporary Art, Special Events, Miami, FL
                        "New Currents in Watercolors," The Noves Museum, NJ
                        "Watercolor Across the Ages," The Gallery at Bristol-Myers Squibb,
                        Princeton, NJ
1991               "Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy and
                                  Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1990               "Reflections and Mirror Images," Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD
                        "Realist Watercolor," The Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, PA
1989               "Washington Watercolors," Gallery K, Washington, D.C.
                        "20th Anniversary of Fendrick," Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
                        "The Food Show," Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY
1988                "Hothouse," Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
                        "Works on Paper," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                        "Watercolors," The Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
1987               "Realism," Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
1986               "E.F. Hutton Collection," Metropolitan Museum, Miami, FL
                        "Watercolor U.S.A. 1986: The Monumental Image," The Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1985-86         "American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
                                 traveled to DeCordova and Dana Museum of Art, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,
                                 University of Evanston, IL; Williams College of Art Center, Willamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum,
                                 Akron, Ohio; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1985               "Contemporary Watercolor Paintings: Influence from the East," College of Mainland, Texas City, TX
                        "American Realism," William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984               "Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Tradition," Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
                        "Washington Watercolors," Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
1983               "American Realism, Collection of Jalane & Richard Davidson," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
                                  Philadelphia, PA; Art Institute of Chicago, IL
                        "Watercolor USA," Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
1982               "10 + 10 + 10: Washington Painters," Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
                        "Romantic Landscapes," Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX

Awards

1999               Julia and David White Colony Residency
                        Djerassi Foundation Residency
                        Julia and David White Colony Residency
1992               Member, The National Academy of Design, New York
1981               Hand Hollow Foundation Residency
1980               The MacDowell Colony Residency
1979               Yaddo Foundation Residency
1967               Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Printmaking

Selected Collections

Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Certified Collateral Corporation, Chicago, IL
Citibank, New York, NY
Commerce Bankshares, Kansas City, MO
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, New York
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Duke University Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC
Exeter Corporation, Chicago, IL
Federal Reserve Bank of America, Miami Beach, FL
Gardener, Carton & Douglas, Washington, DC
Hawaii Arts Council
Honolulu Advertiser, Hawaii
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Jacobs, Visconsi and Jacobs, Cleveland, OH
Kemper Corporation, Chicago, IL
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Miller and Chevalier, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Neuberger & Berman, New York
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Toledo, OH
Pine Ridge Winery, Napa, CA
Rayovac, Madison, WI
Reader's Digest Corporation, New York
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
Seavest Partners, Inc., White Plains, NY
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Shaklee Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Southeast Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
Springfield Museum, Berkeley, CA
The British Museum, London, England
The Brooklyn Museum New York, NY
The Kislak Organization, Miami, FL
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The White House, Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C.
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Baltimore, MD
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
University of Texas, Dallas, TX
Washington DC Council of the Arts and Humanities
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Selected Bibliography

Arthur, John. Realist Drawings and Watercolors, (Boston: New York Graphic Society) 1980, ill.
Arthur, John. Realist Watercolors. (Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University,)1990, ill.
Arthur, John. Green Woods and the Crystal Waters: the American Landscape Tradition.
                       (Tulsa: The Philbrook Museum of Art,) 1999, ill.
Arthur, John. Spirit of Place, (Boston: Little Brown & Company) 1989.
Baker, Kenneth. The San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 1994
Berlind, Robert. Art In America, January, 1980, ill.
Cebulski, Frank. Artweek, June, 1980, ill.
Christian Science Monitor, Seasons and Days of Trees," April 18, 1990.
Clemmer, David. THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, November, 1994, ill.
Cohen, Jean Lawlor. “The Southern Artist: Patricia Tobacco Forrester,” Southern Accents, April, 1991, ill.
Cotter, Holland. “Honing the Cutting Edge of Conservative Style,” New York Times, July 26, 1996
Crothers, H. Beck II. “Patricia Tobacco Forrester: Painter,” Washington Life, September, 1996
Drath, Viola. "Three to Watch," Washington Dossier, September, 1982.
Feliciano, Kristina. “Deepwater,” Watercolor, Spring, 1997, ill.
Forgey, Benjamin. The Washington Post, February 4, 1984/March 5, 1984.
Frank, Patrick. New Art Examiner, June 1986, ill.
Frankenstein, Alfred. San Francisco Chronicle, October 7, 1977.
Friedman, R. Jon. Arts, June 1979, ill.
Gerocimos, Ann. "Patricia Tobacco Forrester," American Artist, November 1983, ill.
Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, May 23, 1984.
Goodyear, Frank. American Realism: Collection of Jalane & Richard Davidson,
                       Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1983, ill.
Green Roger. New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 2, 1984.
Hartwell, Jay. "On finding Hidden Art in the Flowers," The Honolulu Advertiser, January 13, 1984.
Horne, Jean. “Nature as Muse I: The Watercolor Paintings of Patricia Tobacco Forrester,”
                        Pittsburg Post-Gazette, March 3, 1997, ill.
Johnston, Karen Stanger. “Patricia Tobacco Forrester: A Landscape of the Mind,” Watercolor, Spring, 1995, ill.
Johnston, Karen Stanger. “Don’t Mess with Mother Nature,” American Artist, February,1995, ill.
Kramer, Hilton. The New York Times, March 6, 1981.
Kucera, Mary. New Orleans Art Review, October/November, 1984, ill.
Lawrence, Jennifer. “Art of the Land,” Southern Accents, Jan-Feb, 1997, ill.
LeClair, Christopher. The Art of Watercolor, (New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.) 1985, ill.
Leonard, Elizabeth. Painting Flowers, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1986.
Lewis, Jo Ann. The Washington Post, March 1, 1986.
List, Clair. Washington Watercolors, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC, March 1984.
Marvin, Alvin. American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the
                       Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Harry Abrams, Inc., 1986.
McCoy, Mary. The Washington Post, November 27, 1993, ill.
McWilliams, Martha. Washington City Paper, November 26, 1993
Merril, Robert. "Watercolor: In a New Light," Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 21, 1987.
Miller, Donald. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 15, 1997
Morse, Marcia. The Honolulu Sunday Star-Bulletin, February 5, 1984.
Proctor, Roy. "Forrester Watercolors Arresting," The Richmond News-Leader, November 21, 1987.
Richard, Paul. The Washington Post, December 3, 1981.
Rubenfield, Florence. New Art Examiner, April, 1984.
Shearing, Graham. Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh,PA, March 16, 1997
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Museum Blooms Like a ‘Gardner’s Delight,” The Washington Times, July 15, 2000.
Stroud, Betsy Dillard. “View Points,” Watercolor Magic, November 2000, ill.
Van Cleve, Emily. “The Lost Language of Watercolor,” Pasatiempo/The Santa Fe New Mexican,
                       September 16, 1994, ill.
Welzenbach, Michael. "Patricia Tobacco Forrester at Fendrick," The Washington Post, February 17, 1990.
Wolf, Theodore. “Landscapes Live Again,” World Monitor, December, 1988, ill.