Llyn Foulkes

Llyn Foulkes was born in Yakima, Washington, in 1934. Out of high school, he enlisted in the army and worked with the medical corps in Germany. Upon discharge from the service, he moved to Los Angeles where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1957 to 1959. Soon after leaving Chouinard, Foulkes began showing at the Ferus Gallery, where his first one-man show was held in 1961. He began his artistic career as an assemblage artist. Although his body of work has never been attributed to any one particular art movement, he has been associated with abstract expressionist, pop art, assemblage, and collage artists of his time.

In the late 1960s, Foulkes became well known for his landscape paintings, which incorporated vintage postcards and landscape photography. In the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Foulkes began painting large-scale portraits that incorporated collage elements, as seen in the piece That Old Black Magic from 1985.