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THBSigned Paul Forster Painting - "The Portal"
Lot 194
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "The Portal" oil on canvas, n.d. Signed at lower right. A wonderful painting by Paul Forster, depicting an indigenous woman and child before an adobe structure with a blue door (the portal referred to in the title) behind them and a rather sizeable rocking horse beside them. The woman stands and holds her left hand out toward the child who sits forlornly on the stoop. Perhaps the child has fallen off the horse, and she is trying to encourage him to try again. Charming signs of domesticity contextualize the scene - i.e. linens drying on a clothesline as well as the metal dustpan and bucket beside the door. Interestingly, the architecture captures a blend of Pueblo and Spanish Colonial styles popular in the Southwest with details reflecting these respective influences - i.e. vigas projecting from the smooth adobe and elaborately turned columns. A charming glimpse of everyday family life in the Southwest by Paul Forster, set in an attractive custom frame. Frame: 21.5" L x 27.375" W (54.6 cm x 69.5 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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#173012Overall very good. Signed by the artist at the lower right. Some craquelure to the painting. Custom frame shows some surface wear with scuffs and abrasions. Wired for suspension and ready to display.Condition
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