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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 19, 2009 | Doyle | New York | Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art | 220 | $****** - ****** | Gloucester; More than One Man |
paintings
30.5 x 40.6 cm (12 x 16 in)
Oil on board
Signed E. Potthast (lr)
Edward Henry Potthast
American, 1857-1927
Gloucester
Signed E. Potthast (lr)
Oil on board
12 x 16 inches
Literature:
Patricia Jobe Pierce, Edward Henry Potthast: More than One Man, Hingham, Mass.: Pierce Galleries, 2006, fig. 90, p. 73
Edward Potthast clearly relished the relaxed and cheerful world of the seaside holiday, traveling from Maine to the Rockaways with paints and canvas. He was a regular summer visitor to Gloucester, a fishing port north of Boston on the Cape Ann peninsula, where an active artists" colony had flourished since the 1870s. By 1890 fellow Cincinnatian Frank Duveneck had established a summer art school in Gloucester. Quite a number of artists drawn to the Gloucester area, including Joseph DeCamp, Theodore Wendel, and John Twachtman were originally from Ohio. This may have enhanced the allure of the community for Potthast. In Gloucester, bathers cavort by the shore, as boaters enjoy the pleasures of a summer afternoon
