Lot 279
Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Sketching at the Museum" oil on board, n.d. Signed at lower right. Paul Forster was a brilliant colorist as well as a master of composition. His painting titled "Sketching at the Museum" features a young artist sitting on a museum gallery floor while sketching a captivating Asian deity. Beside here, another woman stands and gestures toward a sculpture of a female deity to her left. Sketching in a museum requires that artists slow down and truly engage with an artwork for hours on end, getting to know the various details of a piece on an intimate level. A gem of a painting by Paul Forster that captures this longstanding learning activity that has been practiced by fine artists for centuries, set in an attractive custom frame. Size (sight view): 8.25" L x 6.3" W (21 cm x 16 cm) Size (frame): 13.4" L x 11.5" W (34 cm x 29.2 cm)
At the age eight, Paul Forster became the youngest member of the Albright Art Gallery Association 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 at the lower right. Painting shows a few minor scuffs with areas of touch up. Title is handwritten on the verso. Frame has a few scuffs and stains to the linen covered inner molding but is otherwise very nice and fit with a suspension wire.
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