Andrew Forge

Andrew Forge was born in Hastingleigh, Kent, England in 1923. His interest in the arts showed itself early, but the war interrupted his studies and it was not until 1947 that he entered the painting program at the Camberwell School of Art in South London, studying under William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, and Kenneth Martin. From 1950 to 1964 he taught painting and drawing at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London and from 1964 to 1970 he was Head of the Department of Fine...See more

Andrew Forge was born in Hastingleigh, Kent, England in 1923. His interest in the arts showed itself early, but the war interrupted his studies and it was not until 1947 that he entered the painting program at the Camberwell School of Art in South London, studying under William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, and Kenneth Martin. From 1950 to 1964 he taught painting and drawing at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London and from 1964 to 1970 he was Head of the Department of Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, London. From 1975 to 1983 he was Dean at the Yale School of Art, teaching there untill his retirement in 1994. He died in Washington Depot, Connecticut in 2002. He is represented by the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York. See less