Ben Foster
American, 1852 - 1926
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Born in Maine in 1852, Ben Foster specialized in painting poetic scenes of the New England countryside. He attended the attended the Art Students League in New York City, then went to Paris from 1886 to 1887 but was inconsolably homesick for the woods, hills and fields of New England. Most of his work done after returning to America centered around his home in Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut.