Lot 168
**Originally Listed At $500**
Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "San Juan River" oil on board, n.d. Signed and titled on verso. A breathtaking painting of the San Juan River's waters flowing through the Southwest with majestic buttes to either side. Approximately 355 miles long, the San Juan River originates in the San Juan Mountains (hence the name) of southwest Colorado and flows westward into New Mexico; it is detained in the Navajo Reservoir where it serves as an important source of freshwater for the Navajo Reservation, and continues through southern Utah, terminating in Lake Powell. Forster captures the beauty of the river meandering between sandstone bluffs and beneath wide open skies, all in a gorgeous Southwest palette of cornflower blue, fuchsia, and sky blue grounded by warm sienna, golden ochre, and sage green. Size: 18" L x 23.875" W (45.7 cm x 60.6 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 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 and titled on verso. Minor scuffs, most at peripheries. Otherwise very nice with strong imagery and coloration.
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