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 (showing 500 of 6046 characters). |
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Ben Foster is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Tonalism
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