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Holland Foster

Hillside in Winter

      Born in Caledonia, Iowa, Holland Foster was a landscape and seascape painter, sculptor, writer and teacher.  He  studied at the National Academy of Design in New York with Charles Hinton, Alice Murphy, Raymond Nielson, and John Carlson; the Art Institute of Chicago; the State University of Iowa with Grant Wood, George Innis and Wayman Adams; John F. Carlsen's Landscape School; and with Arthur Covey, Carl Anderson, Leon Kroll, Catherine McCartney, and Edith Bell.

      Foster was a WPA artist and exhibited widely in New York City, Woodstock and Kingston, NY, and Des Moines, IA.  He taught art in Mississippi, New York, and Iowa schools.  He wrote two books; The Ghost Town of Caledonia and Art in Kingston Schools. 

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Public Collections

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

​The Woodstock Art Association, Woodstock, NY

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