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Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), son of a German cabinet maker, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1857. By the age of thirteen he was enrolled in art school and at sixteen he was working as an artist at Strobridge Lithography Co. In Cincinnati. Potthast worked as a lithographer until he was thirty-nine years old, except for six years of study in Europe. His studies in Munich and Paris in the 1880's introduced him to the Impressionists. In 1896 Potthast moved to New York where he worked as a free-lance magazine illustrator for some years before devoting all of his time to painting. Potthast was known as a modest, shy, and diligent person who painted almost every day. A bachelor who enjoyed life, much of Potthast's work focuses on leisure activity, especially that of women and children. As a mature artist, Potthast's fame rests on his beach scenes, completed in the last twenty years of his life. These paintings display the unique synthesis of the American Realist's subject matter and the American Impressionist's painting technique particular to Potthast's large body of work left at the time of his death in 1927.