Summer Joys

Artist Edward Potthast (American, 1857 - 1927)

Date1914

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsUnframed: 12 1/2 x 16 inches (31.75 x 40.64 cm)
Framed: 18 x 22 x 1 3/8 inches (45.72 x 55.88 x 3.49 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation

Object numberF88-36

SignedSigned lower left: E. Potthast

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionA beach scene with body of water in foreground, extending back through right middleground. A grassy bank is in left middleground, and a line of trees extends across background. Four figures of young children are wading in water in foreground, while two figures look on from grassy bank. Impressionistically rendered.Published References

Published References

Fifth Biennial Exhibition Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art,
1914), unpaginated; “Contemporary American Painting,” Art and
Progress 6 (February 1915), 125; Sotheby’s, New York, 1 December
1988, lot 209; Donald Hoffmann, “Kemper Foundation Donates
Two Works to Nelson,” Kansas City Star, 25 June 1989, 5C; “American Paintings Enrich Museum Collection,” Calendar (Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art), Summer 1989, 2–3; NAMA 1991, 131.

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