A Holiday - Edmond, OK
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A 1915 painting by Edward Potthast is the artistic wrap on this utility box.
Waymark Code: WM14WWJ
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2021
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On the northeast side of Edmond is the eighth completed project in the City's Outside the Box project. This artistically wrapped box is on the south side of Covell, east of Air Depot. It depicts women and children enjoying a relaxing day on the beach.
Text on plaque:
Outside the Box
Title: A Holiday
Artist: Edward Potthast
About the piece: A Holiday was produced in 1915 by Edward Potthast. The original painting is oil-on-canvas, capturing a quintessentially impressionist setting - a sun-dappled landscape with women & children enjoying leisure time. Potthast also utilized the movement's technique of broken brushwork and the use of brilliant colors.
Box sponsored by: Melissa Katzenberger
About the program: This public art is brought to you through the City of Edmond's Outside the Box program, spreading public art on infrastructure throughout the community. You can think outside the box with us too. If you are interested in sponsoring a box, visit edmondok.com/outsidethebox.
According to the Art Institute of Chicago:
A Holiday depicts one of the beach scenes for which Edward Henry Potthast was best known. Capturing a quintessentially Impressionist setting—a sun-dappled landscape with women and children enjoying leisure time—the artist also utilized the movement's technique of broken brushwork and the use of brilliant colors.
According to wikipedia:
Edward Henry Potthast was born on June 10, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Henry Ignatz Potthast and Bernadine Scheiffers. Starting in 1870 he studied art at the McMicken School in Cincinnati and in 1873 he started working at the Strobridge Lithography Company. From June 10, 1879 to March 9, 1881, Potthast studied under Thomas Satterwhite Noble, a retired Confederate Army captain who had studied with Thomas Couture in Paris. Potthast later studied at the Royal Academy in Munich with the American-born instructor Carl Marr. After returning to Cincinnati in 1885 he resumed his studies with Noble. In 1886, he departed for Paris, where he studied with Fernand Cormon. In 1895 he relocated to New York City and remained there until his death in 1927.
Until the age of thirty-nine Potthast earned a living as a lithographer. The purchase of one of his paintings by the Cincinnati Museum of Art may have encouraged him to abandon lithography for a career as a fine artist. His paintings retained the subdued colors and strong contrasts of the Munich school until he adopted the Impressionist palette late in his career.
After his arrival in New York Potthast worked as a magazine illustrator, and exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists and the Salmagundi Club, winning numerous prizes. By 1908 he was installed in a studio in the Gainsborough Building. Thereafter he painted sun-saturated images of Central Park, New England landscapes, and the Long Island beach scenes for which he is best remembered.
His work is included in many major museums in the United States, including the Orlando Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cape Ann Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Name of Artist: Edward Potthast
Title of the Art: A Holiday
Year Decorated: September 2021
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Visit Instructions:
When visiting a waymark, please take a picture that clearly shows the artistically decorated utility box. If you have a picture with yourself at the utility box, that would be great too. Also, tell us if you liked the art on the box.