**Originally Listed At $400**

Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Bama Hill" oil on board, n.d. A tranquil painting of a bucolic landscape by Paul Forster presenting lush verdant foliage growing on hill along with golden grasses, a lone red-roofed barn with a lean-to at the apex of the hill, and serene azure blue skies graced by a striking lavender cloud above. All is delineated with Forster's signature loose impressionistic brushstrokes as well as his keen eye for light and color. A serene American landscape painting by Paul Forster! Size: 20" L x 24" W (50.8 cm x 61 cm)

At the age eight, Paul Forster became the youngest member of the Albright Art Gallery Association in Buffalo, New York 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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#176056

"Forster" and"Bama Hill" painted in white on verso. Artist and title also noted on collection label on verso. Painting has a few small chips to the peripheries but is otherwise in very good condition.