David Foster Pratt (11 January 1918 – 21 November 2010) was an American artist, art instructor and designer.

[1] As a young boy, Pratt watched an artist set up his easel and begin painting the New York countryside.

In 1939, he won the Best Landscape award at the Western New York Exhibition hosted by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.

While a member of the Institute's faculty, Pratt assisted the well known artist Charles Burchfield, and worked closely with painter William B. Rowe.

In 1992, Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College put together a special retrospective highlighting Pratt's works from 1939 to 1991.

In 2007, the Burchfield Nature and Art Center Gallery in West Seneca, New York, hosted a special exhibited entitled The Vision of Watercolor with works by Pratt and three members of his family (Michael Pratt, Sarah Tobin, and Susan Rudnicky).

He also won the Watercolor Purchase Award at the Butler Museum of American Art National Exhibition in 1954.