George Post (painter)
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George Booth Post was an American watercolorist
and art teacher.
. He spent several years in Gold Hill, Nevada
with his mother and stepfather Walter Post, then returned to California to live in San Francisco. In 1921, he 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.
said in The San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper.
Watercolor painting
Watercolor or watercolour , also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle...
and art teacher.
Biography
Post was born George Booth Root III at his grandfather's home in Oakland, CaliforniaOakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
. He spent several years in Gold Hill, Nevada
Gold Hill, Nevada
Gold Hill is a community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City. Incorporated December 17, 1862, in order to prevent its annexation by its larger neighbor, the town at one point was home to at least 8,000 residents. Prosperity was sustained for a period of 20...
with his mother and stepfather Walter Post, then returned to California to live in San Francisco. In 1921, he received a scholarship to study at the California School of Fine Arts. His teachers were Gottardo Piazzoni
Gottardo Piazzoni
Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni was a Swiss-born American landscape painter, muralist and sculptor of Italian heritage, a key member of the school of Northern California artists in the early 1900s....
, Otis Oldfield, Ray Boynton, Spencer Macky and Constance Macky.
San Francisco
In 1960, Alfred FrankensteinAlfred Frankenstein
Alfred Victor Frankenstein was an art and music critic, author and professional musician.He was the long-time art and music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle...
said in The San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper.
- "San Francisco is a beautiful city and George Post is one of the people who has helped us to realize."