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
There is a picture of Southern life which ought to have a wide reading, in Kate Beaumont, a story of South Carolina, written by J. W. De Forest, a Northerner and a Union soldier.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring
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