My mom and her arsty friends buy 99 % of their frames at garage sales. All of the time the frames are a part of atrocious garage sale art. The canvases are always painted over with their own art work.
Not this one.
A lovely frame surrounds a dark, moody, well done stormy sea landscape in oils. ( no picture available, sorry.) It is truly a well done picture.
On the bottom is a signature of Walter Foster, who is well known in the art community for his how-to draw art books. Several websights are devoted to his how to books.
I cannot find anything of his particular art work, though.
Does any one have any ideas of how I can get more info or appraisal on it?
My first thought is to check with the art auction records. If you have a good-sized museum or university art library nearby, you can go there and ask to see what they have – these used to be published in books but may now be available through an online service that the museum/library subscribes to. Failing that, there are to-the-public services such as artnet.com and artprice.com that also have auction records, but you’ll have to pay for those yourself.
To add to Earthling’s comment, yeah, there’s an electronic database of auction/sale records called SCIPIO, although I’ve never used it and don’t know whether it only covers high profile auction houses like Christies/ Sothebies. Your local university art library should have access to it.