Paintings

Eric Forlee
American, b. 1949
Cheetah
Oil on canvas
24 by 36in. w/frame 34 by 46in.
Signed and dated ‘Eric Forlee 90’

Provenance:

Private Collection, New York
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques, Sheffield, Ma.

Inventory Number: Art F11
1950-present American Animals Period 1950-Present Sporting Art Contemporary

See Artist Bio below.


Eric Forlee
American, b. 1949

A painter of large wild African animals from portraits to panoramas, he was born in China and as a child was fascinated by books and photographs of wildlife on the African continent. His father was African, but he only met him once when he was age 7 and his mother left her young son behind to move permanently to Africa.

He was raised by a grandmother and had an unhappy childhood in Mou Ming. He was forbidden to draw in school because that was reserved as an upper class activity. He spent six years in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution. He currently resides in California and travels through out the year to Africa to paint. Eric is considered one of the leading safari painters in the world. He has exhibited his works throughout the United States and Internationally.

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