Selected Biography

Tony Foster, Born Lincolnshire, England 1946

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

2023	Watercolour Diaries from The Green River Whitney Western Art Museum, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA; Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
2022	Fragile Planet – Watercolour Journeys into Wild Places Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK
2021	Fragile Planet – Watercolour Journeys into Wild Places Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, England
2019	Searching for a Bigger Subject – Watercolour Diaries from Everest and the Grand Canyon Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
2019	Great Basin and Copper Basin Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2019	Tony Foster Watercolour Diaries - Cornwall to Colorado Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2016	Exploring Beauty – Watercolour Diaries from the Wild Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, England Foster Art and Wilderness Foundation, Palo Alto, California
2013-2017	Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff Foster Art and Wilderness Foundation, Palo Alto, California
2009	Secret Sites Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2008 - 2009	Searching for a Bigger Subject Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Gerald Peters Gallery, New York Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
2006	Rocky Days Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2005	Into the Wild - Watercolour diaries from Greenland to Bolivia John Mitchell Fine Paintings, Bond Street, London
2003 - 2005	Water Marks: Watercolour Diaries from Swamps to Icebergs Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England James Graham and Sons, New York City Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California Frye Art Museum, Seattle National Wildlife Museum, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2000 –2001	Retrospective Exhibition Worldviews: The Watercolour Diaries of Tony Foster Frye Art Museum, Seattle James Graham and Sons, New York City Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 –1999	Ice and Fire: Watercolour Diaries of Volcano Journeys Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England Harewood House, Yorkshire, England Royal Geographical Society, London, England Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997	Meyerson + Nowinski, Seattle, Washington Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, Massachusetts (also 1988, 1994)
1995 –1996	Wilderness Journeys: Watercolour Diaries of the Idaho Rockies Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho Arid Lands: Watercolour Diaries of Journeys across Deserts Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California Channing Fine Art, Santa Fé, New Mexico Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho
1992 – 1993	Rainforest Diaries: Watercolours from Costa Rica Bruton Gallery, Bath, England Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England Harewood House, Yorkshire, England Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990	Exploring the Grand Canyon Plymouth Arts Centre, England Newlyn Orion, Penzance, Cornwall, England Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 – 1989	John Muir’s High Sierra Museum of Art, Olin Center, Lewiston, Maine City of Edinburgh Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland Ecology Centre, London, England California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (in association with Montgomery Gallery) National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1985 – 1986	Thoreau’s Country: Walks and Canoe Journeys Through New England Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts Thorne Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene, New Hampshire Francesca Anderson Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2022	RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy, London, UK (Invited artist)
2019	Mirage: Energy and Water in the Great Basin Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, USA
2014	Time Frames Marking Time West Beth Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
2019	The Western Sublime: Majestic Paintings of the American West Tuscon Museum of Art, Arizona
2016	Inspiring Sights: Yellowstone through the Artist’s Eyes Whitney Western Art Museum, Wyoming
2015	Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester And The Power Of Observation Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2015	West Select Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2011	Land Use Misuse: The Celebration and Exploitation of the American Landscape Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010	Works on Paper Science Museum, London
2006	Yosemite - The Art of an Icon Autry Center for Western Art, Los Angeles, California and touring
2003	The Whole Salmon Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Idaho and touring
2002	In Praise of Trees Salisbury Festival, Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire
2000- 2001	A Century of Grand Canyon Art Grand Canyon National Park After Lewis and Clark: Explorer Artists and the American West Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
1995	100 Years: Context and Continuity Newlyn Orion, Penzance, Cornwall
1989	A Century of Art in Cornwall Truro Museum, Truro, Cornwall
1987	Knowing Your Place Ecology Centre, London and touring
1985	Travels Without a Donkey in the Cévennes (with James Ravilious) Curwen Gallery, London, and touring
1984	Edinburgh Festival (with Richard Demarco), Edinburgh, Scotland

Public Collections

Stanford University, California

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery

Autry Center for Western Art, Los Angeles, California

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

Denver Art Museum

Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital

Yosemite National Park, California

Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Awards and Publications

2008 Painting at the Edge of the World - The Watercolours of Tony Foster; Published by University of Washington Press

2001 Awarded the Cherry Kearton Memorial Medal and “for his artistic portrayal of the world’s wilderness” by the Royal Geographical Society, London.

Opened “Escuela y Clinica Tony Foster” in the rainforest in Honduras.

1994 Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

1988 Yosemite Renaissance Prize

Media

Articles and reviews have appeared in:

The Wall Street Journal - feature article by Tom Nolan; Dallas Morning News; Arizona Republic; Art Times; Southwest Art Magazine; International Artist Magazine (four monthly features); The Art Book (review by Professor John Haldane); Nature; Pratique des Arts; Art of England; L’Art de Aquarelle; Artist and Illustrators; The Times; BBC Radio 4 Mid Week; PBS Santa Fe; KTVK - TV; NBC News; Connie Martinson Talks Books (LA)(2008/2009); Sky Artsworld - 60 minute documentary “The Man Who Painted Everest” (2006); New Statesman; Sunday Telegraph; The Independent; Art Review (2002); American Watercolor (2001); Wall St. Journal (Robert Hughes); KUOW Seattle; Seattle Times (2000); The Majesty of the Grand Canyon (First Glance Books); The Times; The Artist (1998); Art and Antiques [USA]; Art News [USA]; The Spectator; The Independent (1993); Cahiers de Géopoétique (1991); TheGuardian (1990); Washington Post (1989); Condé Nast Traveller; Sierra; The Scotsman; Down East (1987); Appalachia; Boston Globe; New York Times (1985); Observer Magazine (1982); Arts Review (1998, 1993, 1985, 1982, 1980); Art Monthly; Crafts Magazine (1979), and many other publications. His work was the subject of a television documentary made by TSW – Television South West – in 1988 and of a documentary made by BBC Radio 4 in 1999.