Landscape

Edward Henry Potthast was born in 1857 in Cincinnati, OH. He spent his youth studying under artist Thomas Satterwhite Noble at the McMicken School of Design. Potthast later traveled to Europe where he studied in Munich at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and to Paris where he first saw the works of the French Impressionists.

Taking on Impressionist style, Potthast became known for his paintings of bathers at leisure in sun-filled beach scenes.

After returning to the U.S., the artist supported himself as a lithographer until he was 39 years old. Relocating to New York in the 1890s, Potthast worked as a magazine illustrator and began exhibiting around the city. Along with our club, his works are held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.