work Pratt was a painter, draftsman, designer, and art instructor. He was especially well known for his modern urban and rural landscapes. His oil painting and watercolors are very accomplished. He also did work in charcoal, conté crayon, and pencil. Pratt's paintings and drawings present an imaginary world that is both fanciful and foreboding. He used movement and skewed perspective to dissolve images and suggest a fantasy portrayal of his subject. Pratt won several prestigious awards including Best Landscape in Oil at the 1939 Western New York Exhibition hosted by the Albright Art Gallery and the 1941 New York State Fair Purchase Award in Syracuse, New York. He also won the Watercolor Purchase Award at the Butler Museum of American Art National Exhibition in 1954. Pratt's paintings have been exhibited in the mid-west and throughout the northeastern United States. In addition to the Albright Art Gallery, his works have been included in major shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Butler Institute of American Art exhibit Pratt's works in their permanent collections. Exhibitions His works have been displayed in numerous one-man gallery shows and special exhibits including: Twentieth Century Club in Buffalo (1940) Art Institute of Buffalo (1948) The Artist's Gallery in Buffalo (1981) The Barbara Schuller Gallery in Buffalo (1990) Anderson Gallery in Buffalo (1991) Pratt retrospective exhibit at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (1992) Special exhibit, “David Pratt: A Portfolio” at the Norberg's Art Gallery in East Aurora, New York (1999) Rural and Urban Morphology Gallery in Buffalo (2003) Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (2004) Richmond Memorial Library Gallery in Batavia, New York (2004) Watercolor Synergy GoArt Gallery in Batavia (2004) Norberg's Art Gallery in East Aurora (2005) Special exhibit, “A Life in the Arts” series at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo (2006) Special exhibit, “The Vision of Watercolor” with works by Pratt and his family at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center Gallery in West Seneca, New York (2007) References External links AskART – David Foster Pratt Burchfield-Penney Art Center Butler Institute of American Art Meibohm Fine Arts 1918 births 2010 deaths 20th-century American painters American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Artists from New York (state) 20th-century American male artists