에드워드 헨리 포타스트(Edward Henry Potthast), 미국, 화가, 1857-1927
미국의 인상주의 화가, '에드워드 포타스트'는 잡지사 일러스트레이터로 활동했었습니다. 뉴욕으로 이사한 후, 바닷가에서 노는 아이들의 모습을 인상적으로 그렸죠.
비슷한 시대를 살았던 '호아킨 소로야'도 바닷가 아이들을 많이 그렸는데, 스페인의 아이들이건 뉴욕의 아이들이건 여름날 물에서 뛰노는 모습은 똑같군요.
빠른 붓질에 생동감이 느껴지고, 파스텔 색조를 많이 사용했기에 여유롭고 아이들의 순수함이 보이는군요.
About Him
Edward Henry Potthast was an American Impressionist known for his paintings of bathers at leisure in sun-filled beach scenes. Born on June 10, 1857 in Cincinnati, OH, he studied at the McMicken School of Design as a youth under Thomas Satterwhite Noble and found a job at the Strobridge Lithography Company. 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. After returning to the United States, The artist continued to support 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 at the National Academy of Design. The artist died on March 9, 1927 in New York, NY. Today, 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.
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