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Edward Potthast
American painter
born 1857 - died 1927
Student of: Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon (1845-1924).
American Impressionist Edward Henry Potthast is best known for sunny
beach scenes, filled with sparkling surf and high-keyed details such as
balloons, hats and umbrellas. He was born to a family of artisans in
Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 10, 1857. At age twelve he became a charter
student at Cincinnati’s new McMicken School of Design. He studied at
McMicken, off and on, for over a decade. From 1879 to 1881, his teacher
was Thomas Satterwhite Noble. Noble, a portrait and figure painter,
employed a dark palette and a rich, painterly technique derived from his
instruction under French painter Thomas Couture.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Potthast Edward USA
1857-1927
2 In Cloud Regions
3 Along the Mystic River |
