Landscape, Edward Henry Potthast
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.
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