Enid Bauer Foster was an American artist, sculptor, poet, playwright and performing artist best known in later life for her oil paintings and especially her monotype pen drawings, a medium she developed.
11 Facts About Enid Foster
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Enid Foster moved to Europe around 1930 where she studied with Frank Dobson and Augustus John.
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The oils, drawings and especially the monotype pen drawings Enid Foster created in Sausalito in the 1950s and 1960s remain her most significant body of work.
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The monotype pen drawing, a medium Enid Foster probably invented and named, remains almost exclusively hers.
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Enid Foster placed blobs of paint on a sheet of glass and rolled a sheet of paper over it to produce random patterns, which she'd study until she visualized a picture.
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Enid Foster then formed open areas with China white and created the picture in India ink with a crowquill pen.
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Enid Foster became a leader in the Sausalito creative community, once referred to as "Sausalito's Dame Edith Sitwell", and quoted in columns such as Herb Caen's in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Enid Foster was an activist in community matters championing fellow artists and working with town leaders, while occasionally butting heads.
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When Sausalito failed to continue the Sausalito Art Festival, Enid Foster led the efforts for its revival.
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In 1971, Enid Foster left Sausalito to live in France, intending to remain there for the rest of her life.
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Enid Foster spent her last years in convalescent homes in Marin County and died in St Helena, California in 1979.