Ben Foster
Ben Foster
Tonalist Landscape
Oil on Canvas
24 x 18 inches
30 1/5 x 24 5/8 inches in the frame
Signed Lower Right
ID: DH4539
Ben Foster (American, 1852-1926) was born in Anson, Massachusetts in 1852. He lived in Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut most of his life and did not pursue art as a career until the age of thirty. He studied under Abbott H. Thayer at the Art Student’s League in New York and he also studied in Paris under Aime Morot and Oliver Merson. He was best known as a landscape painter who’s style was primarily tonalist. In addition to painting he wrote art reviews for the “New York Evening Post” and the “Nation”.
Studied
ASL with A. H. Thayer, c. 1882; Luc Olivier Merson and Aime Morot in Paris, 1886-87.
Member
ANA, 1901; NA, 1904; SAA, 1897; NYWCC; AWCS; Century Assoc.; Calif. AC; Nat. Inst. AL; Lotos Club; SC; NAC; Society Of Men Who Paint the Far West.
Exhibited
Brooklyn A1A, 1880-86, 1891; Boston AC, 1884-1904; AIC; Paris Salon, 1887; PAFA, 1892-1908, 1916, 1921-26; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Cleveland, 1895 (prize); Paris Expo, 1900 (bronze medal); CI, 1900 (silver medal); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal); SAA, 1901 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (med); NAD, 1884-95; 1906 (Carnegie Prize, prize), 1908 (Inness gold medal), 1909 (gold), Webb Prize, 1917 (prize), 1917 (Altman Prize); Corcoran Gal., 1907-23; NAC, 1917 (gold medal); Newport AA, 1926 (People’s Prize).
Work
CGA; TMA; Luxembourg Mus., Paris,. NGA; PAFA; Brooklyn Inst. Mus; Public Gallery, Richmond, IN; MMA; AIC; CI; Butler Art Inst.; Harrison Gallery, Los Angeles Mus.; Montreal Art Assoc.; City Art Mus., St. Louis, Mo; Omaha Soc. FA; Grand Rapids AA; Albright Gallery, Buffalo; Mem. Gallery, Rochester. NY.
Resources
Who’s who; askart.com