ARTIST: Ben (Benjamin) Foster (Connecticut, New York, Maine, 1852 - 1926)
TITLE: Stream Landscape
YEAR: circa 1880
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Few faint scratches. Small scattered inpaintings/touch ups. Minor damages to frame.
ART SIZE: 16 x 12 inches / 40 x 30 cm
FRAME SIZE: 21 x 17 inches / 53 x 43 cm
SIGNATURE: unsigned
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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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.