Peter Forakis (1927-2009)
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The late Peter Forakis in Petaluma, Northern California, photographed by Morrie Camhi.
Peter Forakis, an American sculptor, was born in September 22, 1927, Hanna, Wyoming of Greek parents who immigrated to the US. He served in the Merchant Marines, 1945-50 and subsequently served his Military Service in Korea and Japan, 1951-53. He obtained his B.F.A. at the California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute) 1957. He passed away November 27, 2009, in Petaluma, Northern California, where he spent the last several years of his life.
Peter Forakis' "Gazebo". Susie Schlesinger collection, Brown Bag Farms, in West Petaluma, as photographed in early 2019 by renowned photographer Scott Hess.
ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS
1960 Brata Gallery, New York; 1961 David Anderson Gallery, New York; 1963 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; 1964 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; 1966 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1967 Windham College, Putney, Vermont; 1968 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1971 University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; 1977 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; 1978 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1981 University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY; 1982 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; 1982 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York; 1983 Gallery 30, San Mateo, California; 1984 Gallery 30, San Mateo, California; 1987 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, California; 1988 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California
GRANTS
1973 National Endowment for the Arts; 1981 National Endowment for the Arts; 2002 Pollock-Krasner
COMMISSIONS
1966 Atlanta Gateway Atlanta, GA; 1967 Tower of Lakota (Williams College, MA); 1969 Hyper Qube, Denver, CO; 1970 Tyconderoga, Nyack, New York; 1971 Tower of Cheyenne, (University of Houston, TX); 1977 Sokar, Marlboro, Vermont; 1980 Kingsboro College, New York; Claremont Resort Hotel, Oakland, CA; Jack London,Oakland, CA; 1986 Inner Land Corporation, Walnut Creek, CA; 1993 ‘Jardins de l’Imaginarie’, Terraceson, France; 1994 Vivin Bloom Ranch, Petaluma, CA; Ulrike Kantor, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1953 Ujeno Museum, Tokyo, Japan; 1956 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1957 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; 1958 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1958 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1959 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1959 Tanager Gallery, New York; 1960 John Daniels Gallery (2 Person Show), New York; 1960 Brata Gallery; 1961 New Forms – New Media, Part 1 and 2, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; 1962 Martha Jackson Gallery, (2 person show), New York; 1961 Riverside Museum, New York; 1963 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1964 American Drawings, Guggenheim Museum, New York; 1964 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Sculpture Show, Riverside Museum, New York; 1964 Welfare Island Art Festival, New York; 1964 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1965 1, 2, 3 Infinitive, Graham Gallery, New York; 1965 Collector’s Choice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1965 New Directions, World House Gallery, New York; 1965 Colored Sculpture, American Federation of Arts (Travelling Exhibition), 1965 4D, John Daniels Gallery, New York; 1965 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1966 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1966 Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York; 1966 Heath’s Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 1966 N.Y.U. Drawing Exhibition, New York; 1967 Park Place Group Exhibition, Denver CO; 1967 Cool Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; 1967 Art For the City, I.C.A., Philadelphia, PA; 1967 Bienniel, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; 1967 Sculpture of the 60’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; 1967 Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1968 Options, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI; 1968 United States Embassy, Mexico City, under the auspices of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1968 Park Place Group Exhibition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 1968 Sculpture in the Park, Denver, CO; 1969 Drawing Show, Graham Gallery, New York; 1969 String Show, Janis Gallery, New York; 1969 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1970 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1971 Paula Cooper Gallery; 1972 Sculpture in the Park, New Jersey Council of the Arts, Paramus, NJ; 1972 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1972 Art of the 70’s, Greenwich, New York; 1973 Sculpture 1973, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; 1973 Vermont ’73, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT; 1974 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York; 1974 Sculpture in the Park, Bergon Community College, Paramus, NJ; 1974 Hirshhorn Collection, Washington Museum of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.; 1975 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1977 Sculpture Yesterday/Today, Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1978 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston MA; 1979 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1979 Prospect Mountain Sculpture Show, Lake George, NY; 1980 Sculptors’ Studies, Glen Falls, New York 1981 Construct, Chicago, Illinois; 1980 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York; 1980 University of Kentucky Museum, Lexington, KY; 1980 Wards Island, Environmental Artists; 1981-82 Sculpture Now: Contemporary American Sculptors, Park West Gallery, Detroit, MI; 1981 Sculpture Inv., Georgetown College, Georgetown, KT; 1982 Project Sculpture, Oakland, CA; 1982 Painter’s Choice, Race Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; 1982 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1983 Group Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; 1983 Group Show, Gallery 30, San Mateo, CA; 1983 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY; 1985 Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA; 1986 Sonoma Artists, City Hall, Santa Rosa, CA; 1987 Group Show, Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1987 Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; 1988 Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; 1989 Sonoma Art Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1989 Heather Farm Park, Walnut Creek, CA; 1989 “Art in the City”, Berkeley, CA; 1990 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA; 1990 Plaza One Market Street, San Francisco, CA; 1991 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1991 Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; 1991 Rental Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA; 1991 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1992 Burbank Art Center, Santa Rosa, CA; 1992 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1992 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1993 E Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1993 San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA; 1993 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1993 Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; 1993 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1994 SF MOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1994 Trident Museum, Santa Clara, CA; 1994 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1994 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1995 SF MOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1995 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1995 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1996 Stoa Gallery, Petaluma, CA; 1996 San Francisco Yacht Club, Tiburon, CA; 1996 Belvedere City Hall, Belvedere, CA; 1996 Lookout Sculpture Park West, Petaluma, CA; 1996 Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, Tiburon, CA; 1996 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1997 Stoa Gallery, Petaluma, CA; 2006 Re Show, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA; 2006 Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
TEACHING
1965 Carnegie Technical School of Architecture and Art; 1966 Pennsylvania State University, PA; 1968-77 Windham College, Putney, VT; Chairman, Art Department 1972-74; 1980 University of California, Berkeley, CA; 1980-82 University of Kentucky, KY
Art Schools
1961-65 Brooklyn Museum Art School, NY; 1967 Cooper Union; 1978 Schools of Visual Arts, New York
HAPPENINGS
1961 Woodstock, New York; 1962 Bridgehampton, New York; “Ergo Suits,” Carnival and Art Fair, Woodstock, NY; 1963 Welfare Island, NY
OWN PUBLICATIONS
Grope Magazine, 1/1 (January 1964); 2/2 (1966)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list)
Art News, May 1960; April 1961; May 1961; November 1961; September 1962; Summer 1966; November 1966; January 1964; January 1969 (reproduction); December 1970 David Bourdon, “E-MC 2 ”, January 1966
Arts Magazine, September 1963; March 1967 (reproduction); November 1967; November 1962; March 1964; December 1966 Edwin Ruda, “Park Place: 1963-1967”, November 1967
Art in America, December 1964; January 1970; May 1970; November 1970; September 1970 (reproductions) Carter Ratcliff, March 1978
Artforum, September 1970; April 1970; October 1970 (reproductions); January 1978 Lawrence Alloway, “Peter Forakis,” January 1968
Arts Magazine, May 1978
COLLECTIONS (partial list)
Mr. and Mrs. Albert List, NY; Larry Aldrich, Ridgefield, CT; Sam Wagstaff, New York; J. Patrick Lannan, New York and Palm Beach; John Powers, NJ; Harris Steinberg, NY; Martha Jackson, NY; Jill Kornblee, NY; Dan Graham, NY; Virginia Dwan, NY; Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Guiberson, TX; Charles Ginnever, Putney, VT; Lionell Bauman, NY; T. T. Husdon, RI; Dartmouth College, NH; Hartwood Acres Art Center, PA; Stanley Silverstein, NY; Frank Porter, MI; R. Karden, PA; A. Meys Pearlman, NY; University of Kentucky Art Museum; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Harold Schnitzer, Portland, OR; Roni Goldfield, CA; Lowell McKegney, Petaluma, CA; Susie Schlesinger, Petaluma, CA; Berkeley Museum, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Denver Museum, Denver, CO; Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN; Interland Executive Park, CA; Stanford Museum, CT; Hardwood Acres, PA; Walker Art Center, MN; Al and Judy Voigt, CA; Ron Casentini, CA; Catherine Frantzeskakis, Athens, Greece; Ion Frantzeskakis, Athens, Greece
1960 Brata Gallery, New York; 1961 David Anderson Gallery, New York; 1963 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; 1964 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; 1966 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1967 Windham College, Putney, Vermont; 1968 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1971 University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; 1977 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; 1978 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1981 University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY; 1982 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; 1982 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York; 1983 Gallery 30, San Mateo, California; 1984 Gallery 30, San Mateo, California; 1987 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, California; 1988 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California
GRANTS
1973 National Endowment for the Arts; 1981 National Endowment for the Arts; 2002 Pollock-Krasner
COMMISSIONS
1966 Atlanta Gateway Atlanta, GA; 1967 Tower of Lakota (Williams College, MA); 1969 Hyper Qube, Denver, CO; 1970 Tyconderoga, Nyack, New York; 1971 Tower of Cheyenne, (University of Houston, TX); 1977 Sokar, Marlboro, Vermont; 1980 Kingsboro College, New York; Claremont Resort Hotel, Oakland, CA; Jack London,Oakland, CA; 1986 Inner Land Corporation, Walnut Creek, CA; 1993 ‘Jardins de l’Imaginarie’, Terraceson, France; 1994 Vivin Bloom Ranch, Petaluma, CA; Ulrike Kantor, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1953 Ujeno Museum, Tokyo, Japan; 1956 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1957 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1957 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA; 1958 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1958 Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1959 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1959 Tanager Gallery, New York; 1960 John Daniels Gallery (2 Person Show), New York; 1960 Brata Gallery; 1961 New Forms – New Media, Part 1 and 2, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; 1962 Martha Jackson Gallery, (2 person show), New York; 1961 Riverside Museum, New York; 1963 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1964 American Drawings, Guggenheim Museum, New York; 1964 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Sculpture Show, Riverside Museum, New York; 1964 Welfare Island Art Festival, New York; 1964 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1965 1, 2, 3 Infinitive, Graham Gallery, New York; 1965 Collector’s Choice, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; 1965 New Directions, World House Gallery, New York; 1965 Colored Sculpture, American Federation of Arts (Travelling Exhibition), 1965 4D, John Daniels Gallery, New York; 1965 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1966 Park Place Gallery, New York; 1966 Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York; 1966 Heath’s Gallery, Atlanta, GA; 1966 N.Y.U. Drawing Exhibition, New York; 1967 Park Place Group Exhibition, Denver CO; 1967 Cool Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; 1967 Art For the City, I.C.A., Philadelphia, PA; 1967 Bienniel, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL; 1967 Sculpture of the 60’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; 1967 Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1968 Options, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI; 1968 United States Embassy, Mexico City, under the auspices of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1968 Park Place Group Exhibition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 1968 Sculpture in the Park, Denver, CO; 1969 Drawing Show, Graham Gallery, New York; 1969 String Show, Janis Gallery, New York; 1969 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1970 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1971 Paula Cooper Gallery; 1972 Sculpture in the Park, New Jersey Council of the Arts, Paramus, NJ; 1972 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; 1972 Art of the 70’s, Greenwich, New York; 1973 Sculpture 1973, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; 1973 Vermont ’73, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT; 1974 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York; 1974 Sculpture in the Park, Bergon Community College, Paramus, NJ; 1974 Hirshhorn Collection, Washington Museum of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.; 1975 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1977 Sculpture Yesterday/Today, Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1978 Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston MA; 1979 Sculpture Now, Inc., New York; 1979 Prospect Mountain Sculpture Show, Lake George, NY; 1980 Sculptors’ Studies, Glen Falls, New York 1981 Construct, Chicago, Illinois; 1980 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York; 1980 University of Kentucky Museum, Lexington, KY; 1980 Wards Island, Environmental Artists; 1981-82 Sculpture Now: Contemporary American Sculptors, Park West Gallery, Detroit, MI; 1981 Sculpture Inv., Georgetown College, Georgetown, KT; 1982 Project Sculpture, Oakland, CA; 1982 Painter’s Choice, Race Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; 1982 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1983 Group Show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; 1983 Group Show, Gallery 30, San Mateo, CA; 1983 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY; 1985 Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA; 1986 Sonoma Artists, City Hall, Santa Rosa, CA; 1987 Group Show, Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1987 Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; 1988 Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY; 1989 Sonoma Art Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1989 Heather Farm Park, Walnut Creek, CA; 1989 “Art in the City”, Berkeley, CA; 1990 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA; 1990 Plaza One Market Street, San Francisco, CA; 1991 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1991 Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; 1991 Rental Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA; 1991 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1992 Burbank Art Center, Santa Rosa, CA; 1992 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1992 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1993 E Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1993 San Francisco Design Center, San Francisco, CA; 1993 Brown Bag Farms, Petaluma, CA; 1993 Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; 1993 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1994 SF MOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1994 Trident Museum, Santa Clara, CA; 1994 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1994 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1995 SF MOMA Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1995 Lookout Sculpture Park, PA; 1995 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1996 Stoa Gallery, Petaluma, CA; 1996 San Francisco Yacht Club, Tiburon, CA; 1996 Belvedere City Hall, Belvedere, CA; 1996 Lookout Sculpture Park West, Petaluma, CA; 1996 Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, Tiburon, CA; 1996 Sonoma State University Gallery, Cotati, CA; 1997 Stoa Gallery, Petaluma, CA; 2006 Re Show, SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA; 2006 Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
TEACHING
1965 Carnegie Technical School of Architecture and Art; 1966 Pennsylvania State University, PA; 1968-77 Windham College, Putney, VT; Chairman, Art Department 1972-74; 1980 University of California, Berkeley, CA; 1980-82 University of Kentucky, KY
Art Schools
1961-65 Brooklyn Museum Art School, NY; 1967 Cooper Union; 1978 Schools of Visual Arts, New York
HAPPENINGS
1961 Woodstock, New York; 1962 Bridgehampton, New York; “Ergo Suits,” Carnival and Art Fair, Woodstock, NY; 1963 Welfare Island, NY
OWN PUBLICATIONS
Grope Magazine, 1/1 (January 1964); 2/2 (1966)
BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list)
Art News, May 1960; April 1961; May 1961; November 1961; September 1962; Summer 1966; November 1966; January 1964; January 1969 (reproduction); December 1970 David Bourdon, “E-MC 2 ”, January 1966
Arts Magazine, September 1963; March 1967 (reproduction); November 1967; November 1962; March 1964; December 1966 Edwin Ruda, “Park Place: 1963-1967”, November 1967
Art in America, December 1964; January 1970; May 1970; November 1970; September 1970 (reproductions) Carter Ratcliff, March 1978
Artforum, September 1970; April 1970; October 1970 (reproductions); January 1978 Lawrence Alloway, “Peter Forakis,” January 1968
Arts Magazine, May 1978
COLLECTIONS (partial list)
Mr. and Mrs. Albert List, NY; Larry Aldrich, Ridgefield, CT; Sam Wagstaff, New York; J. Patrick Lannan, New York and Palm Beach; John Powers, NJ; Harris Steinberg, NY; Martha Jackson, NY; Jill Kornblee, NY; Dan Graham, NY; Virginia Dwan, NY; Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Guiberson, TX; Charles Ginnever, Putney, VT; Lionell Bauman, NY; T. T. Husdon, RI; Dartmouth College, NH; Hartwood Acres Art Center, PA; Stanley Silverstein, NY; Frank Porter, MI; R. Karden, PA; A. Meys Pearlman, NY; University of Kentucky Art Museum; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Harold Schnitzer, Portland, OR; Roni Goldfield, CA; Lowell McKegney, Petaluma, CA; Susie Schlesinger, Petaluma, CA; Berkeley Museum, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Denver Museum, Denver, CO; Fort Wayne Museum, Fort Wayne, IN; Interland Executive Park, CA; Stanford Museum, CT; Hardwood Acres, PA; Walker Art Center, MN; Al and Judy Voigt, CA; Ron Casentini, CA; Catherine Frantzeskakis, Athens, Greece; Ion Frantzeskakis, Athens, Greece
Please Note: The works included here are but a small sample of Peter's work, and almost exclusively, works handled by me, Ion Frantzeskakis, through Stoa Gallery in California. They are by no means representative of his full range of work since some of his works were of monumental size. I was very fortunate to become dear friends with Peter at the time I lived in Petaluma (1994-1999) and I cherish the memories of our friendship.
"Big Joe", painted steel, 15' x 10' x 15', 1987, by Peter Forakis.
The sculpture “Big Joe”, by artist Peter Forakis was installed today in the roundabout at Windsor Rd. and Old Redwood Highway. Previously, it was on display at Paradise Ridge Winery in the Geometric Reflections exhibit. Big Joe survived the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire, which destroyed the Winery. The Town of Windsor partnered with the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation who are the owner of the sculpture and has completed a full restoration after the fire. “This sculpture has become a symbol of survival and resiliency in our community and we look forward to welcoming Big Joe to Windsor” stated Windsor’s Mayor Dominic Foppoli.
"Antenna" by Peter Forakis.
"Calligraphy" by Peter Forakis.
"Fidel", by Peter Forakis.
"Toolz", by Peter Forakis.
"Table of Love", by Peter Forakis.
"Mask", by Peter Forakis.
"Muzik Notes", by Peter Forakis.
"Orbits", by Peter Forakis.
"Parisian Suite", by Peter Forakis.
"Tomb", by Peter Forakis.
"Trajectory", by Peter Forakis.
"Tubes", by Peter Forakis.
"Dawg", by Peter Forakis.
"Sheep Shot", by Peter Forakis.
Festive Composition with Geometric Sculpture by Peter Forakis
The sculptor Peter Forakis at Stoa Gallery, in Petaluma, Northern California.
Ion Frantzeskakis with Peter Forakis' "Dawg" on the small park in front of Stoa Gallery on 11 Petaluma Blvd., North, Petaluma
Two Rock Grange Hall (1870), Petaluma, where Peter Forakis lived and worked for several years, and where I met him. Photo: Scott Hess.
Two Rock Grange Hall (1870), Petaluma. The Grange, or formally, The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, is a national fraternal organization, founded in 1867, to unite agricultural families and promote economic well-being and community. Created after the Civil War, the group sought to unite farmers with buyers and help families support each other during times of economic hardship. This is where Peter Forakis lived for several years until he moved to the Hotel Petaluma due to his ailing health, to finally pass away in November of 2009. Photo by Scott Hess.
