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Forrest Bess

By Forrest Bess, Moritz Wesseler (Editor), Tomma Abts (Text by), Dieter Schwarz (Text by), Amy Sillman (Text by)
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$55.00
By Forrest Bess, Moritz Wesseler (Editor), Tomma Abts (Text by), Dieter Schwarz (Text by), Amy Sillman (Text by)
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Fisherman, autodidact, painter, visionary—Forrest Bess and his abstractions cannot be pigeonholed into one (or any) art movement

Published with Fridericianum, Kassel.

One of the strangest yet most captivating outsider artists that the United States has ever produced, Forrest Bess (1911–77) influenced contemporary names such as Richard Hawkins and James Benning. As a young painter, Bess enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and designed camouflage patterns. He suffered a ...