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Chuck Forsman

Painting

charles.forsman@colorado.edu
303-492-6164
office: C103A

Education
1962-1965 Pasadena College, Pasadena, CA
1967 BA-University of California, Davis
1970 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, MN
1971 MFA-University of California, Davis

Teaching
1969-70 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis
1971- Professor of Fine Arts-Painting, University of Colorado, Boulder

Selected Awards
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hassam Fund Purchase Award
1985 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1986 Ucross Foundation Residency
1988 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship
West Publishing: "Art and the Law" Purchase Award
1993 West Publishing: "Art and the Law" Purchase Award
1995 Colorado Council on the Arts CO Visions Recognition Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1996 West Publishing: “Art and the Law” Purchase Award
2002 University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship

Books Published
1994 “Arrested Rivers”, Paintings by Chuck Forsman with essays and poems by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Roger C. Echo-Hawk, Gary Holthuas, and Charles Wilkinson, Published by theUniversity Press of Colorado.
2003 “Western Rider – Views from a Car Window” Center for American Places, Staunton, VA the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Il, - 78 black and white photographs with an introduction by William Kittredge and a conclusion by Gregory Conniff

Solo Exhibitions
1971 Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1972 Fine Arts Dept. Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder
1973 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
1974 Boulder Public Library, CO
1975 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
1976 Boulder Public Library, CO
1977 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
1978 St. Charles on Wazee Gallery, Denver, CO
1979 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
1981 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
Wichita Art Museum: (retrospective, color catalogue), KS
1983 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, CO (two person)
1985 Denver Art Museum, "Recent West", traveled to:
1986 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC,
Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI,
Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI,
Tuscon Art Museum, AZ (color Catalogue).
1988 Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC
1990 University of Colorado Fine Arts Department Galleries
1991 Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (two Person)
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
St. Johns College, Santa Fe, NM
1992 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
1993 Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1994 "Arrested Rivers" travels to: University of Colorado Fine Arts Department Galleries, Boulder, CO,
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC, NY
1995 Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KA
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA
Emanuel Gallery, Community college of Denver, Denver, CO
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1996 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
1997 William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
1999 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Robischon Gallery, Denver, Co
2002 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Robischon Gallery (Small one-person show)
2005 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2006 University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY

Selected Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KA
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
University of California, Davis, CA
Grinnel College, Iowa
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO

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