Winter Antique Art and Arms, Dec.14th., 2024
Lot 6624:
Very fine oil on masonite painting by well listed American artist Edward Henry Potthast ( 1857-1927). Framed. Signed.
Size: 13 3/4" x 10 5/8" Framed; 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Unframed.
Provenance: Private art collection Denver, Colorado.
Edward Henry Potthast (1857 – 1927) was active/lived in New York, Ohio. Edward Potthast is known for shorescape genre and landscape painting, illustrations.
Edward H. Potthast studied intermittently at the McMicken School of Design between 1869 and 1887. He also worked as a lithography apprentice before traveling to Munich and Paris. When he returned to America he settled in NYC and worked as an illustrator for "Harper’s" and "Scribner’s".
In the 1890s, Potthast became serious about painting the figure. He was also inspired by several trips out West that allowed him the opportunity to paint landscapes with Tonalist qualities in his night scenes. His best known works, however, are Impressionistic beach scenes of women and children playing in the surf. His bold brushwork describes the rocky New England coastline very accurately.
Awards include a medal at the Royal Academy, Munich (1885);
Thomas B. Clark Prize, NAD (1899); Evans Prize, AWCS (1901);
Gold Medal, AWCS (1902);
Inness Prize, SC (1903, 1906);
Silver Medal, St. Louis Univ. Expo. (1904);
Morgan Prize, SC (1904);
Hudnut Prize, AWCS (1914);
Silver Medal, Pan-Pac. International Expo., San Francisco (1915),
Griscom Prize, AWCS (1926);
Osborne Purchase Prize, AWCS (1927).
Memorial & Retrospectives include Traxel Art Gallery (1927);
Grand Central, Closson, Feragil Galleries (1928);
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, NY (1962, 1968);
Cincinnati Art Museum (1965);
Ira Spanierman Gallery, NY (1966);
Chapellier Galleries, NY (1968);
The Taft Museum (1968);
Corcoran Gallery of Art (1973);
L.A. County Museum of Art (1975);
touring show from J.B. Speed Art Museum, to Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, to Beaumont
Art Museum, TX (1985-1988).
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