Bess, Forrest, 1911-1977
Painter
This site provides access to the papers of Forrest Bess in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2022, and total 5 images.
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Summary: The Forrest Bess letters to L.E. and Patricia Cooke, date from circa 1963-1964 and consist of photocopies of two letters and twelve slides of two paintings. Bess writes concerning two paintings owned by the Cookes, and discusses Carl Jung, and the reactions of the unconscious to Bess's work.
Forrest Bess (1911-1977) was a painter and fisherman in Bay City, Texas, known for his generally small, abstract, biomorphic paintings, and his ideas on the merging of masculine and feminine energy. L.E. and Patricia Cooke were art collectors.
Donated 1986 by Patricia (Mrs. L.E.) Cooke as part of AAA's Texas Project.
English .
This site provides access to the papers of Forrest Bess in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2022, and total 5 images.
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