Project Involvement :: Acknowledgments

Tony Foster
Tony Foster
For nearly twenty years Tony Foster has been painting en plein air in wilderness areas around the globe. He has executed his watercolor diaries in some of the most remote places on the planet including the rainforests of Costa Rica, icebergs in Greenland, the deserts of Mexico and the American Southwest, John Muir’s trail in the Sierra Nevada and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Foster’s paintings are an unusual hybrid of painting and personal journal. His skillful and beautiful watercolors of the land are fixed in real time and place by the accompaniment of diaries which consist of notes and physical remnants that tell about a site’s location, the time of day, animal and plant species encountered, geographic and geologic information as well as anthropological or historical references. Foster’s work is an anomaly in that is it deeply rooted in the 19th century Romantic tradition but decidedly contemporary in its insistence on literally situating you in real time. While he celebrates the land’s wonder and beauty, he forces us to consider the elements that make it such—pointing out details of structure and ecosystem, history and use.

Tony Foster has received broad accolades for his work and has been the subject of articles on BBC Radio, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Art News and Art and Antiques. In July of 2002 Foster received the prestigious Cherry Kearton Memorial Medal from the Royal Geographic Society of London joining a unique group of explorers including Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Robert Falcon Scott. Foster’s artwork has been collected and exhibited by institutions around the globe. Most recently the Denver Art Museum acquired an entire series of 16 works that chronicled a trip down the Colorado River. Foster’s upcoming exhibition “WaterMarks” will travel from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum at Exeter to James Graham in New York, Montgomery Gallery in San Francisco and the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
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