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George Post (1906-1977)
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George Post Biography
George Post was born and raised in Oakland, spent several years in Gold Hill, Nevada, then returned to California to live in San Francisco. In 1921, Post received a scholarship to study at the California School of Fine Arts. His teachers were Gottardo Piazzoni, Otis Oldfield, Ray Boynton, Spencer Macky and Constance Macky. By 1930, George Post was married and working as a commercial artist, while privately painting watercolors of San Francisco cityscape subjects. Although George received little instruction in watercolor at art school, he became very interested in this medium while viewing a show of outstanding watercolors by Stanley Wood in 1929. After that Post became a committed watercolorist, producing works on a daily basis. When California became known as the center of a new movement in watercolor painting, George Post had already produced a large body of work and was prepared to do exhibitions at museum and gallery shows. George presented one-man shows at the San Francisco Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Art, Oakland Art Gallery, Sacramento College Art Gallery, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sacramento Art Center and in a number of private galleries. Post's watercolors done for the PWPA Art Project were exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and a mural he painted in Sonora received positive reviews in the newspaper. As a member of the California Group, George Post's works traveled in shows throughout America. |
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Post's watercolors, particularly the geometric abstractionist works done after the war, were well received in art
circles throughout California. George Post's style was modern enough to be exhibited in the progressive art shows and representational
enough to be included in more conservative ones. His goals were to capture the essence of design and feeling offered by the
subject, rather than to produce a realistic picture of the scene. Although many of Post's watercolors look deceptively simple,
they are masterfully composed, spontaneously painted, and have a creative use of shadow and light to establish a definite mood. In addition to his painting career, George Post also taught art for many years, in 1947, he was offered a job teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts that only required him to teach two days per week. In the summers, George taught at the Rex Brandt - Phil Dike Summer School of Painting. When they closed the school, Post taught summers for the T.H. Hewett Watercolor Workshops at various locations around the world. In 1991, a book titled George Post, which documents his life and art, was published by Hillcrest Press, Inc. George Post Biographical information: Biographical information in this book is based on interview with George Post, 1983. George Post biography provided courtesy of “California Watercolors 1850-1970” by Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. Book available at CalART.com | |||||||
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