Lot 43
Paul Forster (American, 1925-2012). "Rail Car and Bridge #2" oil on board, n.d. Signed in lower right, and label with title on verso. A dynamic painting by Paul Forster portraying a figure walking alongside a railcar on a bridge, seemingly about to enter a huge, square gateway in which several red flags sway in the wind before a clear blue sky. The contrast of the sky against the red and brown of the train and landscape is quite striking, while the subject matter - featuring a juxtaposition of a train and flags - suggests the effects of 19th century Manifest Destiny and expansion across the North American continent on the American southwest. Size: 30" W x 24" H (76.2 cm x 61 cm)
At the age eight, Paul Forster became the youngest member of the Albright Art Gallery Association if 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 right, and label with title on verso. A few minor chips to outer edges of periphery that do not affect central image. Otherwise, painting is in overall excellent condition.
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