Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001205A Holiday
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: E. Potthast
Provenance
The artist, New York; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1915; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1915.
Exhibition history
National Academy of Design, New York, Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, Mar. 20–Apr. 25, 1915, no. 212 [ill. facing p. 29]. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of Paintings: Collection of the Friends of American Art lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 26–July 26, 1926, no. 21. Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 17. Cincinnati Art Museum, Eternal Summer: The Art of Edward Henry Potthast, June 8–Sept. 8, 2013.
Publications
Robert J. Dunham, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 17. Patricia Jobe Pierce, "Edward Henry Potthast: More Than One Man," Pierce Galleries (2006) p. 57, ill. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 75.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857–1927)
- Date
- c. 1915
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.4 × 101.8 cm (30 1/8 × 40 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1915.560
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