Patricia Tobacco Forrester

Lovers in Daphne's Garden

Patricia Tobacco Forrester - Lovers in Daphne's Garden: Before establishing her reputation as one of America’s leading contemporary watercolor artists, Patricia Tobacco Forrester was known primarily as a fine etcher. In 1967, in fact, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in printmaking. Lovers in Daphne's Garden is an original etching published in an edition of seventy five impressions and is signed, titled and numbered by Forrester in pencil. This is a fine, original example of the etched art created by the American artist, Patricia Forrester.

Original Etching by the American artist, Patricia Tobacco Forrester.

Lovers in Daphne's Garden

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Title:	Lovers in Daphne's Garden
Artist:	Forrester, Patricia Tobacco (Northampton, MA, 1940 - Resides Washington, D.C.)
Date:	c. 1975
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	Patricia Tobacco Forrester received her Bachelor's degree from Smith's College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1962). She then gained her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Yale University (1963 & 1965). At Smith College Forrester worked under Leonard Baskin and at Yale she studied under Alex Katz and Philip Pearlstein.
	During her career, Patricia Forrester has either taught or been a guest artist of such institutions as the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (1972-1981), Kent State University (1981), University of Iowa (1981), the Art Institute of Chicago (1982) and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art (1984). Today her fine art is included in the following collections: The British Museum, London, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy of Design, the Library of Congress and the White House. Patricia Tobacco Forrester became a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1992.
	Like most of Patricia Forrester's original etchings, "Lover's in Daphne's Garden" dates from quite early in her career. Yet it, like her later watercolors, clearly displays her primary artistic concern. She states, "The subject of my work is always growth: how trees and plants bulge and stretch and open."
Edition:	Limited edition of seventy five impressions, numbered '19/75'.
Size:	11 1/2 X 17 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	UnMatted
Buy Now	Price: $495.00 US
Condition:	Printed on heavy pure rag paper with the 'Arches' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published around the above date. Signed, titled and numbered, '19 / 75', by the artist in pencil along the lower plate mark. Containing several spots of foxing in the outer margins (well removed from the actual etching) else in very good condition throughout. "Lovers in Daphne's Garden" represents a prime, original example of the famous art of Patricia Tobacco Forrester.
Subject:	Patricia Tobacco Forrester, "Lovers in Daphne's Garden", original etching, Guggenheim Fellowship in printmaking, National Academy of Design, Leonard Baskin, Philip Pearlstein, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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