Richard Thomas Foster (March 21, 1919 - September 13, 2002) was an American architect and illustrator born in Pittsburgh. Foster married Eleanore August Jasper (1916 - 2012) in 1945, after returning from his 4-year World War II (1939 - 1945) tour of duty. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant. After the war, he enrolled at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture, graduating in 1950. He afterwards took a position with the Philip Johnson (July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005) Firm. In 1962, Foster founded his own firm, Richard Foster Associates, achieving fame as modernist architect. In 1964 he designed the New York State Pavilion, still visible at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens. He also worked extensively for New York University, designing the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library (1972), Tisch Hall (1972) and the Hagop Kevorkian Center (1973). His own home, the Wilton, Connecticut 'Round House' or 'Circambulant House' was and remains a groundbreaking architectural achievement. The entire house, resembling a glass and steel mushroom, rests on pedestal and rotates to maximize views and light. Foster died in Danbury Connecticut. More by this mapmaker...

Eleanore Augusta Foster (December 31, 1916 - February 4, 2012), born Japser, was an American artist. Eleanore was born in Woodcliff, New Jersey and studied at Hempstead High School, then at St. Lawrence College. She married modernist architect Richard Thomas Foster (1919 - 2002) in 1945, after his return from a 4-year World War II (1939 - 1945) Army service. She died in 1916 in Redding, Connecticut. Learn More...

George Charles Miller (June 17, 1894 - October 21, 1965) was an American lithographer and publisher. He was born in New York City into a commercial printing family, and began his apprenticeship in the family business at 15. He completed his apprenticeship at the American Lithographic Company. Miller served in World War I. He is notable for having recognized early on the value of printing for artists, and would eventually print exclusively for artists: one of only a few American printers to do so. Not only did he print artists' work, but he also trained artists (Ruth Haviland Sutton among them) in the craft of lithography. He was married to Carrie Scharsmith Miller, and lived most of his life in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. He also had a home in Burlington, Vermont, where he died of a heart attack in 1965. Miller's son, Burris G. Miller (1928 - 2017) took over the business, until retiring in 1994. Learn More...