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Ben (Benjamin) Foster

Ben (Benjamin) Foster (1852 - 1926) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York, Maine.  Ben Foster is known for New England rural landscape painting, writing.

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, and studied privately with Abbott Thayer, whose influence on Foster was the painting of floral still life.

In 1886, like many American artists, he went to Paris.  He traveled with Leonard Ochtman and Charles Warren Eaton, with whom he had been shari   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6032 characters.]  Artist bio

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