De Forest
Americannoun
noun
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Yet when De Forest rented a theater in 1923 to demonstrate several sound shorts, studio heads showed no interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Wisconsin purchasing agents on March 26 paid $19,799 for 2,100 N95s at an Ace Hardware in De Forest.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2020
But De Forest openly acknowledges one source of his crowded, pushed-forward beings and their staring eyes in “Painting the Big Painting,” a 1993 work that includes figures and faces from Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020
Artists included in this show at the Parker include figures such as Wallace Berman, Kurt Schwitters, Roy De Forest and Franklin Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2019
The fun of the whole thing was that De Forest had not the slightest idea what it was that had caused the trouble.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan
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