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A Holiday, Edward Henry Potthast, c. 1915
Edward Henry PotthastAmerican

A Holiday

c. 1915 · Painting

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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About the painting

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. In the painting the children converse and frolic at the water’s edge on a windy day. There is nothing threatening about the waves or wind; indeed, Potthast’s paintings were both praised and criticized for presenting nothing other than a pleasant, innocent, and optimistic view.

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Particulars

Accession number
1915.560

What it shows

PeopleWeather/seasonsLeisureChildWater

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingModernism20th centuryImpressionismUnited States

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