id: 162090 accession number: 2001.41.b share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.41.b updated: 2023-03-15 15:46:43.344000 Beach Study (verso), c. 1910. Edward H. Potthast (American, 1857–1927). Oil on panel; overall: 31.8 x 40.7 cm (12 1/2 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Virginia Rose Glidden and family and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2001.41.b title: Beach Study (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1910 creation date earliest: 1905 creation date latest: 1915 current location: creditline: Gift of Virginia Rose Glidden and family and Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on panel department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edward H. Potthast (American, 1857–1927) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 31.8 x 40.7 cm (12 1/2 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fifth Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists (15 December 1914 - 24 January 1915), no. 219 & no. 218 (verso?). --- PROVENANCE Charles and Nell Wheeler; Virginia Rose Glidden and Family date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: During the early 1900s, modesty dictated women’s bathing suit designs featuring long, loose-fitting skirts. digital description: Born in Cincinnati, Potthast studied in Munich and Paris before returning to the United States, where he began spending summers along the coast of New England. There he studied the carefree seaside activities of bathers and picnickers. Although he never married, he was particularly fond of painting young mothers and their children. wall description: Born in Cincinnati, Edward Potthast studied for several years in Munich, where he developed a tendency to work in the dark earth tones of the so-called Munich style. In the late 1880s, however, his exposure to Impressionism in Paris turned his interest toward the effects of light and atmosphere upon color and form. Armed with this new approach, Potthast returned to the United States, set up a studio in New York City, and by the 1890s had gained a reputation for his New York beach scenes. In time he began spending summers along the coast of New England and Maine. There he studied the carefree seaside activities of bathers and picnickers. Although he never married, he was particularly fond of painting young mothers and their children. This oil sketch is a fine and representative example of Potthast's work. A second oil sketch, Beach Study, is on the reverse side of the panel (see photo). The painting is in its original frame. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES