Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Monument Valley" oil on board, n.d. Signed on lower left. A striking painting of the Navajo Nation's Monument Valley - one of the most breathtaking locations in the American West - by Paul Forster. Forster captured the beauty of Monument Valley's awe-inspiring buttes, mesas, and rocky pinnacles rising in their elegant formations from the desert floor in a gorgeous red desert color palette. Simply sublime! Size: 30" L x 40" W (76.2 cm x 101.6 cm)

At the age eight, Paul Forster became the youngest member of the Albright Art Gallery Association and also started studying at the Museum School with watercolorist Robert Blair. During World War II, Forster served in the Army Air Corps, and in 1952, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a Fine Arts Degree. In the late 1950s, Forster had a studio in Nevada painted murals for the Mormon Church. In the early 1960s, he taught art and became Chairman of the Art Department of the L.D.S. Schools of the South Pacific in Tonga. In 1969 he left Brigham Young University to paint full time. For the greater part of the next decade, Forster traveled throughout the American Southwest in an Airstream trailer to paint the environment and its inhabitants. In time, he moved to Oregon followed by Kansas City, but eventually returned to Arizona.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Signed by the artist on the lower left. A few scuffs and abrasions as shown. Some bending to the peripheries of the board. Label with title on verso.