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1852 North Anson, Maine - 1926 New York City. Known for: New England rural landscape painting, writing.
Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors,... Read full biography
Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors, muted browns, grays and rusts. In Tonalist tradition, he completed most of his paintings, both oil... Read full biography
Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors, muted browns, grays and rusts. In Tonalist tradition, he completed most of his paintings, both oil and watercolor, in his studio and not on location, en plein air.*. Foster was born in North Anson, Maine, where he spent his childhood, along with his artist brother, Charles Foster. For financial... Read full biography
Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors, muted browns, grays and rusts. In Tonalist tradition, he completed most of his paintings, both oil and watercolor, in his studio and not on location, en plein air.*. Foster was born in North Anson, Maine, where he spent his childhood, along with his artist brother, Charles Foster. For financial reasons, he did not begin an art career until he was almost age thirty. In 1870, he settled in New York City, and took a mercantile job to support art training. He attended the Art Students League* in New York City, and studied privately with Abbott... Read full biography
Benjamin Foster's painting specialty was bucolic scenes of the New England countryside. His style was predominantly Tonalist* with subdued colors and limited tones---almost exclusively autumn colors, muted browns, grays and rusts. In Tonalist tradition, he completed most of his paintings, both oil and watercolor, in his studio and not on location, en plein air.*. Foster was born in North Anson, Maine, where he spent his childhood, along with his artist brother, Charles Foster. For financial reasons, he did not begin an art career until he was almost age thirty. In 1870, he settled in New York City, and took a mercantile job to support art training. He attended the Art Students League* in New York City, and studied privately with Abbott Thayer, whose influence on Foster was the painting of floral still life. In 1886, like many American artists, he went to... Read full biography
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Keywords (58)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Barbizon, France
- •Europe
- •Litchfield, Connecticut
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Boston Art Club
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •Century Club Association, New York City
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •New York Water Color Club, Society-
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Society of American Artists, New York
Art Teacher
- •Abbott Handerson Thayer
- •Aime Morot
- •Luc-Olivier Merson
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Carnegie Foundation Fellowship, Grant
- •Inness Gold Medal, National Academy of Design
- •Webb Prize, Society of American Artists
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •California Art Club
- •Lotos Club
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Arts Club
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts