George Post
by Gordon T. McClelland
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81 pages, 89 color illustrations, hardcover. Buy this book: Price: $27.00
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About This Book
George
Post has long been recognized as one of California’s
premier watercolor artists. His life and work are documented
in this illustrated biography, tracing his progress from the
late 1920s to the 1980s. Insights pertaining to his unique
style of watercolor painting are included, as well as discussions
of the events that helped shape his career and a chronological
list of his exhibition records and travels.
Post began
his art career in San Francisco in the 1930s. Within ten years
he was a key figure in the California Style watercolor movement
and was exhibiting with the California Water Color Society.
By the 1940s he had developed a distinctive geometric abstractionist
style for which he received acclaim from artists and critics
throughout America. 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
most of his watercolors look deceptively simple, they are
masterfully composed, spontaneously painted and have a creative
use of color and light to establish a definite mood. As Post
wrote, “the first split-second reaction, that first
wonderful visual image, is the thing one must try to project
on paper.”
Post
was also active as an instructor of watercolor painting. He
taught regularly at the California College of Arts and Crafts
and as a guest instructor at Stanford University, San Jose
State College, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, Brandt School
of Watercolor Painting and the T.H. Hewitt Watercolor Workshops.
His watercolors are represented in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego Museum of Art,
Oakland Museum of Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, M.H. de
Young Museum, Seattle Art Museum, California Palace Of The
Legion Of Honor, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Mills College
Collection.
California Watercolor