Joe Forte’s New York

These are a few of the books I designed for a friend and fellow painter, Joe Forte. These 3 are part of the series for drawings and paintings of New York over the decades he spent living on the street and drawing the city. Click on a cover to see a preview of the book. They are all available from Amazon in hardcover or paperback.

Joe Forte’s New York, Volume 1

There are 57 ink drawings by Joe Forte of Greenwich Village and its environs.

$99.00

Joe Forte’s New York Volume 2

Another 57 drawings of the streets of New York from the view of living on those same streets.

$99.00

Joe Forte’s New York, Greenwich Village and Soho Watercolors

Original watercolors from the New York series by Joe Forte.

$99.00

My second book

This is the cover I designed for the book. I made these through Amazon's books and Kindle.

This link will take you to the e-book on Amazon.

A fellow painter of large pieces said to me I should make a record of some kind, a gathering of little images and ideas created from the large ones. Maybe stitched or glued together.

As I have many large paintings, and a great deal of other work, the idea of having something small I could hold in my hand was very enticing. As much for others as it was for me to see what I got up to from my death bed.

Drawings from the ’70’s

A few drawings from the 1970’s

‘Sanity is a relative state’, bic pen on cheap paper, 1976.

‘Drummer from a famous painting’, pencil on paper, 1975.

‘Listening to the music of food’, pencil on paper, 1975.

‘Reach to the stars in search of a more varied sex life’, pencil on paper, 1975.

‘She lost her leg’, pencil on paper, 1975.

‘Statue, female’, pencil on paper, 1975.

‘Identity crisis’, pencil on paper, 1976.