Tony Foster, *Devils Bedstead Looking South South East from the North Fork of the Big Lost*, 2018 | Watercolor and graphite on paper, mixed media | 48 5/8 in. x 46 1/2 in. | 2018.1.10

Tony Foster Journey 17 | 2018 | 15 artworks

Exploring Idaho’s Copper Basin

Painting locations: Idaho

During the summer of 2018 Tony returned to one of his favored places to paint: Idaho’s Rocky Mountains. Invited to exhibit at Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho in 2019, Tony wandered and painted in Idaho’s Copper Basin, a wilderness area that is part of the Challis National Forest with spectacular views of the Pioneer Mountains. This Journey was exhibited together with a number of artworks from Tony’s earlier treks in the Great Basin. A major diptych included in the exhibition, A Walk Across Death Valley (1991), chronicles one of Foster’s most difficult hikes in what is the lowest point of the Great Basin. It was exhibited alongside a painting from the White Mountains in California, the highest point of the Great Basin.