Andrew Murray Forge (10 November 1923,

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– 4 September 2002,

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, United States) was an English painter, academic, and art critic. After

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, Forge studied art at the

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, under

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and

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in the 1940s. From 1950 to 1964, Forge was a senior lecturer at the

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in central London, where he met Dorothy Mead in the 1950s, a former member of the

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, when she was a mature student at the Slade. He showed with the

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of artists from as early as 1950. He formally joined the London Group in 1960, the same year as Mead, and was president from 1966 to 1971. He was succeeded as president by Mead. From 1964 to 1970, Forge was Head of the Department of Fine Art at

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in southeast London. From 1971 to 1972, he was a lecturer in the Department of Art at the

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. Andrew Forge emigrated to the United States and was Visiting Professor at

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(1973–74), Associate Dean,

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(1974–75), Visiting Professor (1975–2002). He became Professor of Painting at

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(1975–91), Dean of the School of Art (1975–83), and Emeritus William Leffingwell Professor of Painting (1991–94). In 1992, he was elected into the

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as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. Forge's work are among collections at the

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and other art museums. In 1950 Forge married Sheila Deane and they had three daughters. The marriage was dissolved and he remarried in 1974 to Ruth Miller.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Forge, Andrew 1923 births 2002 deaths People from the Borough of Ashford Alumni of the University of the Arts London 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters 21st-century male artists English art critics Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Academics of the University of Reading Cooper Union faculty Yale University faculty British emigrants to the United States