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AT&T Yahoo! Mail - robie @sbcglobal.net Page 1 of 4 YAHOO! MAIL Print - Close Window Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:49:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Melissa Robie"Subject: Fwd: FW: UC Davis News: Artist Roy DeForest dies To: "Mom & Dad Robie" Shari forward the UC Davis announcement. Love you! Note: forwarded message attached. Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. Forwarded Message Subject: FW: UC Davis News: Artist Roy DeForest dies Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:17:54 -0700 From: "Kawelo, Shari" To: "Melissa Robie" Plain Text Attachment FYI: press release from UC Davis on your uncle's passing. Best, Shari -----Original Message----- From: owner-getnews@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-getnews@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of newsservice@ucdavis.edu Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 4:06 PM To: ucdavis-news@usdavis.edu; getnews@ucdavis.edu Subject: UC Davis News: Artis Roy DeForest dies University of California, Davis May 21, 2007 ARTIST ROY DEFOREST DIES [Editor's note: Photo of DeForest available upon request.] Roy DeForest, who was born into a Nebraska farmworker family during the Great Depression and became one of the most important artists of his generation, died Friday following a brief illness. He was 77. DeForest, a longtime professor of art at the University of California, Davis, was one of the originators of a Northern California art movement once described by Washington Post art reviewer Sidney Lawrence as a style "in which counterculture thinking fused with an anything-goes, anti-art attitude harking back to the Dadaists of the World War I era." The style, marked by exuberant, outrageous wit, was sometimes called "California funk," a classification DeForest disliked. http://us.f815.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?box=Invox&MsgId=9591_11594912_31923_2111.. 5/22/2007