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

on cream wove Old Style paper

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

signed and titled in  pencil

and some short repaired edge tears in the large margins

a stray speck of ink left center margin

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