The Art of Foster Hyatt T H E O L D S A N TA F E A R T C O M PA N Y
The Art of Foster Hyatt A C O L L E C T I O N O F T W E N T Y- S E V E N O R I G I N A L SOUTHWESTERN ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS
T H E O L D S A N TA F E A R T C O M PA N Y
“ He started long before it was fashionable to protect or chronicle buildings. In some cases, this fact alone, that he brought attention to a building, helped to save them.” REX BALL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, HTB INC. (and son of founder, Ralph Ball)
INTRODUCTION KANSAS NATIVE FOSTER HYATT PAINTED HIS FIRST WATERCOLOR IN 1930, after
turning his interest in horses into sketches while in high school. When he entered Oklahoma A&M (now OSU), Hyatt rejected the idea of studying to be a purist artist and chose to study architecture. Hyatt forged friendships at OSU with fellow architecture classmates Ralph Ball and Ed Hudgins, who later formed the architecture firm, HTB Inc., an international architectureengineering-planning firm located in Oklahoma. In 1939 Ball and Hudgins hired Foster Hyatt to create delineations (paintings of the proposed building and its surroundings). Painting the clouds above architect’s sketches started a six-decade career for Hyatt. After working in Oklahoma for two years, he moved to Santa Fe in 1941 to open his own delineation studio. It was then when his painting became a pure art passion. Hyatt lived in the oldest house in Santa Fe and began his fine art and historical conquest. He used the watercolor and air brush medium to depict the old Spanish architecture of New Mexico and Arizona. Hyatt had a studio located at 1579 Canyon Road called Galeria Casas Viejas where he sold water color paintings and prints of southwest scenes and structures. The following twenty-seven airbrush watercolor paintings are from a series of architectural renderings he created as original multiples and mailed to collectors, colleagues and friends. All margins measure 8-5/6 x 11-1/8 inches.
CATHEDRAL, SANTA FE Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed F-H, lower left
SAN MIGUEL, SANTA FE
S ANTUARIO, CHIMAYO
Airbrush/Watercolor 9-1/4 x 7 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
ST. ANNE’S, SANTA FE
ST. ANNE’S, SANTA FE
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
All artworks are unique, original airbrush paintings, created as “multiples” and were mailed to customers and collectors of Foster Hyatt. As with these two paintings of St. Anne’s, Santa Fe, colors varied on paintings as well as the saturation and application of paint.
CHURCH AT CORDOVA Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with F-H logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
CERRILLOS, N.M.
ST. THOMAS, ABIQUIU
Airbrush/Watercolor 9-1/4 x 7 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
SAN JUAN PUEBLO Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
PUERTA DE TRAMPAS Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
MISSION AT ISLETA PUEBLO Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
RANCHOS DE TAOS (front-view) Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with F.H. logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
RANCHOS DE TAOS (back-view) Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
CHAPEL TAOS (La Capilla De Nuestra Señora du Carmen) Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches titled in pencil
UNTITLED (Church at Canyoncito) Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right
SAN JOSE DE TRAMPAS Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
GUADALUPE, SANTA FE
LAGUNA PUEBLO CHURCH
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
CRISTO REY, SANTA FE
UNTITLED
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 9-1/4 x 7 inches signed with H logo mark, lower left
CHURCH AT GOLDEN Airbrush/Watercolor 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
CHAPEL IN THE TETONS (Episcopal Chapel of the Transfiguration, Moose, Wyoming) Airbrush/Watercolor 6-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
MISSION ESPADA, SAN ANTONIO, TEX Airbrush/Watercolor 6-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower right titled in pencil
HERMOSILLO, MEXICO
ALAMOS, MEXICO; (Iglesia de la Purisma Concepción)
Airbrush/Watercolor 6-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches titled in pencil
Airbrush/Watercolor 9-1/4 x 7 inches titled in pencil
GUAYMAS, MEXICO Airbrush/Watercolor 6-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
VILLA DE SANTIAGO, MEX. Airbrush/Watercolor 6-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches signed with FH logo mark, lower left titled in pencil
THE ART OF FOSTER HYATT A Collection of Twenty-Seven Original Southwestern Architectural Renderings Introduction: “Artist Foster Hyatt to Be Honored at Reception,” The Oklahoman, by Shannon Vanmeter, Feb. 1990 The Old Santa Fe Art Company historical to modern, santa fe
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