Bart Forbes (1939) is an American painter and illustrator. He has worked for most of the popular magazines, amongst them Time, Sports Illustrated, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's and Golf Digest, as well as a broad selection of corporate clients. His works include postage stamps for the US Postal Service, Time magazine's Man of the Year article on Jimmy Carter, paintings of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, theme paintings for the PGA tournaments and club houses and paintings of the Dallas Cowboys for Jerry Jones' private jet. He was the recipient of the 1986 Sport Artist of the Year Award given annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives. The Sports Art of Bart Forbes, a collection of his most famous sports paintings, was published by Beckett in 1998. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2017.
Bart Forbes is a gifted painter–illustrator who has gained great respect over a 55+ year period. He is well-known for his loose painterly, yet realistic style of work which, in the 1970s and 1980s, were regularly reproduced to accompany stories for McCall's, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal and other popular women's magazines. At that time, a number of limited edition prints were published including the male and female golfers, the endangered species series and images of Native Americans among others.
As Forbes' career progressed and the women's magazines adopted a smaller size format, most often without short stories, his focus shifted to the world of sport with commissions from Sports Illustrated, Time and the National Football League. In 1987, he was commissioned by the Korean Olympic Committee to be their official artist for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Several of those images were reproduced in a series of limited editions prints as well.
Over the years, requests for large paintings necessitated that he change medium from water color to oil, but his style retained its original loose, washy quality which it still his trademark. In 2005, 2006 and 2007 TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, commissioned Forbes to do a number of mural-size paintings of legendary golf moments and players from the Players Championship tournaments. He is currently still painting commissioned work along with landscape paintings for sale in galleries.
On June 22, 2017, Bart Forbes was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.
In 2018, Bart was selected as one of the "Most Influential Alumni" of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
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Bart at work
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| Art for private jet interior |
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| Cathedral (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Chicken (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Cold Spring (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Egret (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| First Light (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Fruit (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Ghost Pines (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Glen Livet (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Gourds (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Green Apples (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Passage (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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| Red Pears (from the Fine Art Collection) |
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Sled Olympic stamp, 1992
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US Postal Service- Winter Olympics, 1988
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| XV Winter Olympics poster |
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| Summer Olympics poster |
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| Michael Jordan |
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| Joe Montana - Levis Stadium painting |
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| Dance Skaters poster |
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| Boys, Life magazine |
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| Stan Getz (from the Illustration series) |
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| Sarah Vaughan (from the Illustration series) |
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| Plains National Bank (from the Illustration series) |
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| Nat King cole CD Cover, Verve Music (from the Illustration series) |
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| Ella Fitzgerald CD Cover for Verve Music (from the Illustration series) |
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| AT&T - Jerry Jones (from the Illustration series) |
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| Tiger Woods mural at Sawgrass (from the Golf series) |
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| The Masters- 12th hole (from the Golf series) |
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| Ryder Cup captains for Preston Trail Golf Club (from the Golf series) |
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| Nicklaus at 1st Players Championship - Atlanta (from the Golf series) |
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| Byron Nelson Classic tournament art (from the Golf series) |
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7th at Sawgrass - PGA Tour (from the Golf series)
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