The competitive spirit, challenge, traditions and excitement of sport are epitomized in the oil
and watercolor renderings of renowned American painter and illustrator Bart Forbes.
Forbes is a sought-after sports artist, working out of his studio in the Texas home he
shares with his wife and two children. Having won 60 Awards of Excellence from the New York
Society of Illustrators, he has been commissioned many times over by Sports Illustrated, Time
magazine, Eastman Kodak, Pepsi-Cola, American Airlines and ABC Television. Named the
1986 Sports Artist of the Year by the U.S. Sports Academy, Forbes was selected by the
Olympic Committee as the official artist for the 1988 Summer Olympics. The artist has
designed over 20 commemorative postage stamps, including the Lou Gehrig and Jesse Owens
commemoratives, "The Olympians" and the "America the Beautiful" series as well as
commemorative posters for the Boston and New York Marathons, Indianapolis 500, America's
Cup and 1994 Winter Olympics.
Although accomplished in rendering all sports, Forbes is perhaps best known for his
golfing images and acclaimed for his portraits of history's thirty greatest golfers. Having done
theme paintings for a variety of PGA and Seniors tournaments, Forbes recently completed the
theme art for the 1994 Pebble Beach Pro-Am for the second consecutive year.
Forbes's works are in the collections of such notables as former Presidents George
Bush and Jimmy Carter, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as well as Arnold Palmer and
Jack Nicholas, the National Football League and The Smithsonian Institution.
BIRTHPLACE: Atlus, OK
EDUCATION: University of North Carolina
Art Center of Design, Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITIONS: New York Society of Illustrators
National Art Museum of Sports
1990 Olympic Festival, Indianapolis, IN
AAU Junior Olympics, San Antonio, TX
Rizzoli Galleries, New York, NY
Jack O'Grady Galleries, Chicago, IL
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