Cleveland Museum of Art

In the Surf (recto)

Date

c. 1910

Medium

oil on panel

Culture

America

Department

American Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Born in Cincinnati, Potthast studied in Munich and Paris before returning to the United States, where he began spending summers along the coast of New England. There he studied the carefree seaside activities of bathers and picnickers. Although he never married, he was particularly fond of painting young mothers and their children. During the early 1900s, modesty dictated women’s bathing suit designs featuring long, loose-fitting skirts.

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