White Girl in the De Forest

De Forest lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her parents, Douglas de Forest and Katherine Olsen de Forest. Douglas is a musician and composer, and Katherine is a former actress and model. Autumn De Forest is the descendant of twentieth-century artists Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), George de Forest Brush (1855-1941) and Roy de Forest (1930-2007). She is also related to Robert W. de Forest, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

De Forest began experimenting with a paintbrush at age five when her father was staining wooden furniture. Given scrap wood at her request, de Forest painted a design that her parents felt surpassed the average child’s artistic ability. De Forest’s parents encouraged her, providing her with brushes, canvases and acrylic paint. The de Forest's repurposed their music studio into an art studio. When she was seven years old, de Forest wanted to display her art. Her parents rented a space at the 2009 Boulder City Fine Arts Festival, where she received an honorable mention. A month later, de Forest won best of show in another Art in the Park event. After time, her parents obtained representation for her and her work, with Ben Valenty, a child-artist representative.

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