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EDWARD POTTHAST The Grand Canyon.
Oil on panel, circa 1910-15. 410x505 mm; 16 1/4x20 inches. Signed in oil, lower center recto.
Provenance: Private collection, Cleveland; sold Wolf's, Cleveland, September 19, 1991, lot 57; Richard Kerwin Galleries, Burlingame, California; private collection, California; private collection, Chicago.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work in preparation by Mary Ran Gallery, Cincinnati.
In November of 1910, in an effort to transform the image of the Santa Fe Railway and to stimulate tourism to the American Southwest, Cincinnati-born Potthast (1857-1927), along with four other prominent American artists (Thomas Moran, Elliott Daingerfield, Frederick B. Williams, De Witt Parshall), was invited by the Railway to journey to the Grand Canyon to recreate on canvas the unique experience of its landscape. This was Potthast's first visit to the Grand Canyon and of significant importance for the artist. Potthast would go on to exhibit his depictions of the Grand Canyon at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1911, 1918 and 1920. Potthast's devotion to the Southwest would also lead him to become a founder of a group called the Society of Men Who Paint the Far West, which included several of the artists who accompanied Potthast on the 1910 painting excursion.
