George Post (painter)

{{Short description|American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = George Post | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = George Booth Root III | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|9|29|}} | birth_place = Oakland, California | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|3|26|1906|9|26}} | death_place = San Francisco, California | field = Watercolor painting | movement = California style watercolor | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }}

'''George Booth Post''' (September 29, 1906 – March 26, 1997<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/George-Post-2847985.php|title = George Post Obituary|date = April 2, 1997|access-date = October 29, 2014|website = SFGate}}</ref>) was an American watercolorist and art educator. He was an important contributor of the California style watercolor movement (also known as the California School of watercolor, part of the California Scene Painting school) of the mid 1920s until the mid 1950s.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.calart.com/californiawatercolors.asp|title = California Watercolors|access-date = October 29, 2014|website = CalArt California and American Art}}</ref>

==Biography== Post was born as George Booth Root III at his grandfather's home in San Francisco, California.<ref>{{Cite book|title = George Post|last = McClelland|first = Gordon T.|publisher = Hillcrest Press|year = 1992|isbn = 0-914589-08-3}}</ref> He spent several years in Gold Hill, Nevada with his mother and stepfather Walter Post, then returned to California to live in Oakland. In 1921, he received a scholarship to study at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA) now called the San Francisco Art Institute. His teachers were Gottardo Piazzoni, Otis Oldfield, Ray Boynton, Eric Spencer Macky, and Constance Lillian Jenkins Macky.<ref>{{Cite web | title=CalART.com - California Art - Vintage California and American Paintings | url=http://www.calart.com/Data/featured/George_Post.asp | access-date=2025-04-04 | website=www.calart.com}}</ref> Post was a long time faculty member at California College of Arts and Crafts.<ref name=":0" /> He died of pneumonia in San Francisco, California at age 91.<ref name=":0" />

{{blockquote|text = "In the old gold rush country. I had sent two or three watercolors down to the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco for a California show and Mr. Thomas Howe had just become director of the museum or he was assistant director."|sign = George Post|source = <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-george-booth-post-12857 | title=Oral history interview with George Booth Post | date=1964-04-09}}</ref>}}

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==External links== *[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-george-booth-post-12857 Collection Summary: An interview of George Booth Post conducted 1964 Apr. 9, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art.] *[http://www.calart.com/Data/featured/George_Post.asp George Post biography provided courtesy of “California Watercolors 1850-1970”] *[http://www.sullivangoss.com/george_Post/ California Watercolorist; George Post] *[http://www.askart.com/askart/p/george_booth_post/george_booth_post.aspx George Post, Auction records]

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