The Art of Foster Hyatt

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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