Editor's note: Read about Roy De Forest's life.

"Dog Cart From Hell," a painting by Roy De Forest, is on permanent display on the first floor of the Shields Library at UC Davis, just outside the Special Collections Reading Room. Other De Forest works are in the collection of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at UC Davis; images can be viewed at the gallery Web site, http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu/.

In addition, De Forest's work will be featured in an exhibit, You See, at the Nelson Gallery from Sept. 27 through Dec. 9. The show will travel afterward to St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, the Bakersfield Museum of Art in Bakersfield and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas.

Along with work by De Forest, the Nelson Gallery exhibit will include the paintings and sculptures of four other prominent early members of the faculty of the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History: Wayne Thiebaud, William Wiley, Manuel Neri and the late Robert Arneson.

De Forest's work is also in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Oakland Museum, and in more than two dozen other public collections throughout the United States. In addition, it is on display at the John Natsoulas Art Gallery in Davis, the Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento, Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco and George Adams Gallery in New York City.

De Forest, who taught at UC Davis for almost 30 years, died Friday morning (May 18) following a short illness. A resident of Port Costa, Calif., he was 77.