Lot 306
**Originally Listed At $600**
Paul Peter Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Pre-Columbian Artifact" oil on board, n.d. Signed in lower left corner, and again with title on verso. A vibrant painting by Paul Forster depicting a pottery fragment of a figural vessel likely from the ancient people of Veracruz, Mexico, who inhabited the region from the 3rd to 7th century CE. Delineated in lofty open brushstrokes and brilliant shades of orange with hints of red and gray, the evocative image displays the head and shoulders of a pre-Columbian deity wearing a huge, elaborate headdress in the form of a bird with outspread wings, a flared tail, and a large beak held open as though it emits a sonorous squawk as the avian head projects forward. Size: 20" W x 24" H (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 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 and 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 pursue his art 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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- Condition: Signed in lower left corner, and again with title and artist's address and phone number on verso. A few minor nicks to edges of periphery; none affecting central composition. Painting in overall very good condition.
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