Autumn Trees, Fields and Brook with Queen Anne's Lace by Ben Foster, Amer., (1852-1920) Chromolithograph

Autumn Trees, Fields and Brook with Queen Anne's Lace by Ben Foster, Amer., (1852-1920) ChromolithographWatercolor, circa 1900, 6 1 4 x 11 1 4, fading to the blue sky and foreground fields, mat burn to edges from an old acidic mat, signed lower right in pencil, an abandoned watercolor landscape verso. Born in Maine, Ben Foster was a well respected tonalist painter who came to art late, studying by age 30 at the Art Student's League then in Paris in 1876 77. Foster longed for New England though, and settled in Cornwall Hollow, CT, where most of his

whom Barrer studied with at the Art Student's League

and some short repaired edge tears in the large margins

signed and titled in  pencil

a stray speck of ink left center margin

on a sheet of cream laid japan paper with full original deckle edges 13-3/8 x 18

A beautiful study of light streaming past rustic jugs on a window sill in Hardie's studio

18-1/4 x 22-3/8

on cream wove Old Style paper

Gorbaty's essay "Printmaking with a Spoon" was included by Gabor Peterdi in his book "Printmaking Methods Old and New"

This print was particularly significant for Kent

and denunciation of the principle of non-intervention in external affairs

and to the top margin with several small edge tears