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Painter, draughtsman, muralist, art critic and writer, born of British parents in Calcutta, India, educated there at La Martinniere College and in England at Lancing College. Forster studied art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts under Bernard Meninsky and William Roberts, then in Paris at Atelier Colarossi. In 1928, he began travels which would take in Canada, America, Mexico and the Caribbean. In Canada he did commercial work and mingled with the Group of Seven, A Y Jackson a friend and mentor. In America he was a set designer for Selznick International Pictures and launched his exhibiting career with the CSGA at the New York World’s Fair, 1939, organised by the National Gallery of Canada. He then had his first solo show in 1941 at the Picture Loan Society, Toronto.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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