WEBVTT 00:01.735 --> 00:06.172 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I grew up with my uncle's art in our house. I called him Uncle Deanie, 00:06.172 --> 00:07.841 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% because he was Roy Dean De Forest. 00:07.841 --> 00:09.042 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% APPRAISER: Uh-huh. 00:09.042 --> 00:16.082 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: My earliest memories of him are sitting at the kitchen table doodling. 00:16.082 --> 00:20.387 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I would doodle something and he'd make something out of it. And then he would 00:20.387 --> 00:24.057 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% doodle something and I'd make something out of it. I wanted to grow up and be an artist 00:24.057 --> 00:31.598 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% just like him. This collection was done in the late '50s. It was between when he 00:31.598 --> 00:35.301 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% had gone to school for a B.A. in art and he hadn't started for his master's yet. 00:35.301 --> 00:36.736 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% APPRAISER: Uh-huh. 00:36.736 --> 00:42.709 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: And he was working at the iron foundry in Richmond. My mother said... He was kind of 00:42.709 --> 00:46.279 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% down and she said, "Well, you know, I'm going to write this children's book about a tooth fairy 00:46.279 --> 00:51.184 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% and chlorophyll. What do you think?" And he got really excited and he made these drawings for 00:51.184 --> 00:56.489 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% her. I found them when my mother moved in with me about ten years ago. She was sick, 00:56.489 --> 01:01.428 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and I found them in the bottom of a Chinese chest. The story was kind of dark for the time, 01:01.428 --> 01:07.634 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% because this was, as you can see, this is chlor... That's Chlorophyll, and he ended 01:07.634 --> 01:12.672 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% up at, uh, some point going in the night and pulling teeth out of adults' mouths. There... 01:12.672 --> 01:14.040 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% APPRAISER: Well, that's scary. (laughing) 01:14.040 --> 01:15.575 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: I know, right? 01:15.575 --> 01:20.046 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% APPRAISER: What's so amazing to me is, 01:20.046 --> 01:27.887 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the vibrancy and the subject matter is something that he grew throughout his really wonderful, 01:27.887 --> 01:33.293 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% wonderful career. Such great imagery, and this composition, with this, like, scary tooth being 01:33.293 --> 01:39.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% pulled out of this guy. But look at the palette. I mean, it's so vibrant. He's an original in the 01:39.766 --> 01:45.438 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% best possible way. And, happily, people have come to love his work. And he's represented in 01:45.438 --> 01:50.009 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% some of the finest museums in the country. He was a great teacher. He was a sculptor, 01:50.009 --> 01:54.114 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% he was an artist. And now we see that he's an illustrator. Was he a fashion designer, too? 01:54.114 --> 01:56.983 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST (chuckling): No, but I am wearing one of his shirts. 01:56.983 --> 02:00.186 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% APPRAISER: Very nice. 02:00.186 --> 02:03.423 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: Yeah. I always say, if I wear the shirt, he's got my back. 02:03.423 --> 02:07.293 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: So have people seen these before? Have they been published? Have they been...? 02:07.293 --> 02:10.730 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: No, they have not been published. In fact, they've only been seen by a few 02:10.730 --> 02:14.667 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% members of the family. (chuckling): This is kind of like a, a premiere art show. 02:14.667 --> 02:20.073 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: They're gouache on paperboard. I've spoken with some of my colleagues, 02:20.073 --> 02:28.515 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% and we think that because... Sometimes early work doesn't look like anything that's coming next. And 02:28.515 --> 02:34.921 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% this really is quite mature and, and shows what he was going to do, and what he would become 02:34.921 --> 02:40.326 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% famous for. So we're thinking that an insurance value of maybe $40,000 for the collection of 13, 02:42.328 --> 02:45.231 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% uh, would be a good place to start. Because they should be insured. 02:45.231 --> 02:46.432 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes. 02:46.432 --> 02:49.702 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% APPRAISER: I mean, he's a, he's a hero. 02:49.702 --> 02:51.638 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: (chuckles) APPRAISER: He's a, he's a California hero. 02:51.638 --> 02:53.306 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yeah. 02:53.306 --> 02:55.842 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: How did the story end? What happened to Chlorophyll? 02:55.842 --> 02:57.544 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% GUSET: You know what? I don't know. 02:57.544 --> 02:58.778 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% APPRAISER: (laughing) 02:58.778 --> 03:01.247 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I don't... I'm not even really sure that my mother ever actually finished it.