**Originally Listed At $750**

Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Pony" oil on canvas, n.d. Signed and titled on the verso. A striking painting by Paul Forster, featuring an indigenous hunter on horseback in a stunning Southwest landscape with a wild animal - perhaps a coyote - fleeing in the opposite direction. The horse and rider are racing full gallop toward the left of the composition, while the wild canine is wisely headed right. Interestingly, the Pueblo tribes have traditionally believed that the coyote possessed hunting medicine. Zuni hunters, for example, kept coyote effigies as hunting fetishes. Forster's painting is notable not only for his remarkable artistry, replete with a keen eye for light and color, but also for his ethnographic intentions. Size: 23.875" L x 30" W (60.6 cm x 76.2 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. In time, he moved to Oregon followed by Kansas City, but eventually returned to Arizona.

Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Herding Goats" oil on canvas, n.d. Signed and titled on the verso. An action-packed painting finely painted with a keen eye for light and color, featuring two indigenous herdsmen on horseback rounding up and shepherding a flock of goats. The Navajo and Apache were nomadic hunters and gatherers when they arrived in the Southwest; however, they also adopted some of the ways of the Pueblo peoples, creating villages and growing corn as well as other vegetables. Once the Spaniards introduced goats as well as sheep and cattle, they began tending to these animals. Forster's painting is notable not only for his remarkable artistry but also for his ethnographic intentions.

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 and titled on the verso. A few scuffs and stains as shown. Otherwise very nice.