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Edward Henry Potthast Biography

American artist
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. Edward Henry Potthast was born to a family of artisans in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 10, 1857.

He and Noble had been preceded by fellow Cincinnatians John Henry Twachtman, Robert Blum, Joseph De Camp, and Frank Duveneck, who alternately taught in Munich and Cincinnati. At the Royal Academy, Potthast studied with the American-born instructor Carl Marr (von Marr, after 1909), who was known for his adroit handling of light and shadow in realistically rendered Edward Henry Potthast art sale.

Returning to Cincinnati in 1885, Potthast resumed his studies with Noble, while earning his living as a lithographer. At this time, Edward Henry Potthast painting style was much influenced by the Munich School, which was, in turn, influenced by the Dutch painting tradition. Edward Henry Potthast paintings, which included both interiors and landscapes, displayed sound draftsmanship and dark tones applied with solid unbroken strokes. At the end of 1886, he again departed for Paris, where he studied with Fernand Cormon and, possibly, with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. In 1889 Edward Henry Potthast artist met American Robert Vonnoh and Irishman Roderic O’ Conor, landscape painters who were working at Grèz. The cool-toned, Impressionist Edward Henry Potthast art with scumbled surfaces these artists and others at the Grèz colony were making had a profound impact on his palette. His conversion to Impressionism was immediate and irrevocable. When he returned to Cincinnati, he carried back light-filled canvases, Edward Henry Potthast paintings such as Sunshine, 1889 (Cincinnati Art Museum), a painting of a girl in an outdoor setting, which had been exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1889. When the exhibition entitled “Light Pictures” opened in 1894 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Edward Henry Potthast artist was the only American artist included in the show.

Even though he enjoyed modest success in his hometown, Potthast made the decision to leave Cincinnati in 1895 and establish himself in New York City. While Edward Henry Potthast went about setting up a painting studio, he fulfilled illustration commissions for the publications Scribner’s, Century, and Harper’s. The artist exhibited watercolors and Edward Henry Potthast oil paintings in exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1896, and at the National Academy of Design from 1897. The artist won the academy’s Thomas B. Clarke prize for best figure Edward Henry Potthast painting in 1899, the same year was he was elected an associate of the academy. Potthast was made a full academician in 1906.

The artist never married. Edward Henry Potthast was an extremely private person, though he was close to his nephew and namesake, Edward Henry Potthast II (1880-1941), who also was an artist. Potthast died alone in his New York studio on March 9, 1927.

The Edward Henry Potthast paintings are represented in public galleries across the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.