拍品 40

Property of the Montclair Art Museum, sold to benefit the Acquisition Endowment Fund

Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)

Wading

细节

Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)
Wading
signed 'E Potthast' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 x 20¼ in. (40.6 x 51.4 cm.)

来源

Florence O.R. Lang.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1943.

出版

Montclair Art Museum, The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, 1977, p. 128, illustrated.
M.S. Kushner, A. Anreus, M. Grzesiak and V. Wageman, Three Hundred Years of American Painting: The Montclair Art Museum Collection, New York, 1989, p. 169, no. 369, illustrated.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, New York: A Magnet for Artists, exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, Japan, 1994, pp. 30, 212, illustrated.

展览

Tokyo, Japan, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, New York: A Magnet for Artists, April 14-June 12, 1994.
Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Growing UP: Childhood in American and Native American Ninteenth Century Art, September 13, 2003-February 15, 2004.

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拍品专文

By the 1910s, Potthast had settled into his studio on West 59th Street in New York City, which was in close proximity to the crowded resorts of Brighton Beach and Coney Island. The seashore lent itself to a bold Impressionist treatment; the motion of the surf and the casual poses of people on holiday necessitated Potthast's quick, animated style. In Wading, an effervescent example of one of these compositions, Potthast paints a high horizon line to accentuate the vastness of the bright blue ocean and town beyond. The children are depicted in confident dashes of colors and forms that typify the artist's creative, impressionist style through the use of broad and direct brushwork. The painting's quick brush strokes and vibrant palette perfectly encapsulate the essence of carefree leisure on a summer afternoon.