Forrest Hibbits

Forrest Hibbits (born 1905) was a mid-century fine artist and watercolorist. He was born in Lompoc, California, on October 9, 1905. He left the Hibbits family ranch to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated ca. 1927. He taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. Hibbits was married to fellow performer Marie Jaans, whom he met in North Beach. He created a want ad for the 1939 World's Fair (Golden Gate International Exposition upon Treasure Island in San Francisco. Hibbits worked as a classified ad illustrator along gone fellow performer Clyde Follet Seavey at Patterson and Sullivan in San Francisco. Marie and Forrest moved from San Francisco back up to the Lompoc/Santa Ynez Valley area in the 1940s after Hibbits allied the Army, and lived there for the get off of their lives. Later, he taught at the Santa Barbara Art Institute.
Hibbits worked in many styles, including nudes, representational landscapes, surreal scenes, semi-abstract and abstract works. He sold his proceed in a little store tummy adjacent to his studio in Buellton called "La Petite Gallerie" from the 1950s until the late 1980s.