Patricia Tobacco-Forrester (Northampton, Massachusetts, 1940)
Royal Flush, Color lithograph, 1990

"A resident of Washington, D.C., for many years and a seasoned veteran of the art gallery circle, Tobacco-Forrester is well-known in the United States for her extraordinary ability to handle watercolor. Her distinguished career focused on nature, her works evoking with great delicacy the danger faced by the natural environment due to human actions. She has traveled extensively throughout Central America, especially Costa Rica and Nicaragua, observing the forests that still remain in those countries. The IDB owns a larger watercolor by the same artist inspired by the dry forest of Costa Rica."

—Félix Angel, Curator, IDB Cultural Center

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