March 30, 1926
The Brooklyn Museum announces that on Sunday, April 4th, it will present a Memorial Exhibition of the Paintings of Ben Foster, the well-known American landscape painter who died on January 29th of this year.
Ben Foster was born in 1852 and studied in America as a pupil of the late Abbott H. Thayer and in Paris under Morot and Merson. For more than thirty years he produced landscape paintings of high merit, winning a score of medals beginning with the Chicago Exposition in 1893. Perhaps his most important successes were those achieved at the exhibits of the National Academy of Design, where he won the Carnegie Prize of 1906, and his winning of the Inness Gold Medal of 1908 and the Altman Prize of 1917. For a number of years he was also art critic of the New York Evening Post. Examples of Foster's work are important parts of the collections of the Corcoran and National Galleries at Washington, the Museums of Brooklyn and Toledo, the Metropolitan Museum, the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy at Philadelphia, and the Luxembourg.
The forthcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum will occupy an important place in the Museum's Gallery of American Paintings. Among those who have lent canvases to the collection are Mr. Charles Foster, Mr. Harold I. Pratt, Mrs. William T. Hunter, Mr. Alexander M. White, Mr. William A. Putnam, Mr. John J. Walton, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and the Macbeth and Grand Central Galleries. The exhibition will remain on view until May 1st.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1916 - 1930. 1926, 035. View Original
