Chuck Forsman (b. 1944) is a painter, photographer and educator whose landscapes examine the complex and often destructive relationship between people and the natural environment. Born in Nampa, Idaho, he earned his B.A. in 1967 and M.F.A. in 1971 from the University of California, Davis, and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1970. His paintings juxtapose the beauty of the American West with evidence of industrial development, environmental ruin and human intervention. Forsman served in Vietnam as an illustrator and photographer before beginning a distinguished teaching career at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1971–2008). His publications include Arrested Rivers (1994), Western Rider (2003) and Lost in Vietnam (2019). He has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and exhibited extensively, including at the Denver Art Museum. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Nevada Museum of Art and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri