"Tony Foster: World Views"
2000-09-30 until 2000-11-26
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, WA, USA

Over the past two decades, British artist Tony Foster (b.1946) has trekked across the world, capturing the changing faces of the landscape in a series of heroic watercolors. Painting on site, often under difficult circumstances, Foster creates works that are part artistic vision and part naturalist observation, frequently with sketches of flora and fauna, or the occasional found object, adorning the edges of his works. The resulting images are immediate and memorable. Each work is a page of the artist's visual diary, a chronicle of events and encounters that constitutes both journey and destination.

Foster focuses his energy on painting fragile wilderness regions with an eye to conservation: My work is about wilderness, a celebration of the fact that even on our overcrowded and increasingly polluted planet there exist places of intense beauty without any mark of human interference. I see it as my role as an artist to spend time in these places, to distill my experiences, and to bring my evidence back to civilization. The paintings are not simply landscapes --- they are a way of describing what happens when I make my journeys.

Organized by the Frye Art Museum, the exhibition will travel to New York and San Francisco at the conclusion of its showing in Seattle. A richly illustrated exhibition catalogue with essays by Tony Foster and guest curator Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, is available in the museum store.

IAMGE:
Tony Foster,
From Pasture Wash Trailhead to Royal Arch,
watercolor, 31-1/4 x 21-1/4 | 1-1/2 x 3 inches.
Collection of D. Riley DeGroot.
All rights reserved.

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