Tourists go home

Enid Foster - Tourist Go Home

Tourists Go Home, circa 1965

acrylic on paper

Meet Sausalito's greatest forgotten artist,  Enid Foster (1895-1979). Known for her sculpture, monotype pen drawings, & oils,

In Sausalito during the 1950s, Enid Foster stood at the center of a magic world of poetry, performance, and visual wonder that owed as much to her powerful personality as it did to her brilliant art. In another time, that magic might have brought her fame, but in the 1950s, that art was too far beyond the mainstream. The curators, critics, and gallery owners who had recognized her as an internationally important sculptor thirty years before now only saw Sausalito’s town character: a white-haired 60-year-old in frayed blue jeans, beat-up tennis shoes, and a railroad man’s work shirt walking an old dog through town on her way to the bookstore—an amusing eccentric who made irrelevant art. They missed the magic, but those who understood it never forgot it. Her art speaks for itself.

Sausalito Foundation Art Gallery
  1. Fred Lyon - Herring Run
  2. Justine Carey - Fence with Gate
  3. Bruce Forrester - San Rafael
  4. Joe Jacqua - Sausalito Sails
  5. Hanna Merians - Glad Hand Restaurant
  6. Muriel Schmalberg Ullman - Marin Fruit Company and Chinese Laundry
  7. William Dohrmann - Girl on a Sea Wall
  8. Diane Karasik - Mount Tamalpais from Richardson Bay
  9. Donn Emmons - Plaza Vina del Mar
  10. Catherine Anderson - Bulkley Avenue Arches
  11. William Dohrmann - Sailboat on the Bay
  12. Nan Fowler - Tides Out
  13. Glenn McKay - Houseboat
  14. Walter Kuhlman - Untitled Landscape
  15. Walter Kuhlman - Untitled Landscape
  16. Jerry Stitt - Marine Scene
  17. Audry Hulburd - Sausalito Houseboats
  18. Laura Kradjan - The Last Free Boat Ride
  19. Ted Christensen - Untitled Landscape
  20. Milo - Winter Night
  21. Warren Logan - Sausalito View
  22. Charlotte Von Segesser - Sausalito Houseboats
  23. John David Stanton - Fog Fall
  24. Ruth Alexander - Bay Sailors
  25. William Corcoran - Volkswagen at Gate Six
  26. Albert Garvey - Virgo
  27. Jody Horst - Russian River Fisherman
  28. Phil Frank - Sausalito City Council
  29. Beatrice Boot Bernardi - Untitled Life Drawing
  30. Enid Foster - Finding Harlequin
  31. Michael Bry - Portrait of Beatrice Boot Bernardi
  32. Enid Foster - Tourist Go Home
  33. Walter Van Voorhees - Morning on Richardson Bay
  34. William Kirsch - The End of Spring Street
  35. Al E. Sybrian - Flight of Youth
  36. Jean Varda - Harlequins