Peter Forakis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1927
Place of Birth: Hanna, Wyoming, United States
Date of Death: 26-Nov-2009
Profession: artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Peter Forakis
- Peter Forakis (born September 22, 1927, in Hanna, Wyoming, died November 26, 2009 in Petaluma, California) was an American artist known as an abstract geometric sculptor.
- The son of a Greek immigrant, he grew up on the Wyoming prairie until the age of 10 when his family moved to Oakland, California.
- Eventually they settled in Modesto, California.
- Forakis was in the Merchant Marines from 1945-50.
- He served in the US.
- Military in Korea and Japan from 1951-53.
- He earned his B.F.A.
- at the California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute) in 1957.
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