Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110
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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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Museums & Collections (23)
All MuseumsEverson Museum Of Art
401 Harrison Street
Community Plaza
Syracuse, NY 13202Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
823 Exposition Boulevard
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
Ne 41st And 15th Avenue Ne
Seattle, WA 98195-3070Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Phoenix Art Museum
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611-1425San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Telfair Museum of Art
Po Box 10081
Savannah, GA 31412The Hermitage Museum & Gardens
7637 North Shore Rd.
Norfolk, VA 23505The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102The Parthenon
Centennial Park
Po Box 196340
Nashville, TN 37219-6340The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Tucson Museum of Art
140 N. Main Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85718University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014