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1906 Oakland, California - 1997. Known for: Modernist town-landscape, machines and marine painting.
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father,... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father, Walter Post, and George moved to Nevada. There his mother changed his surname to Post. As an adult he used George Booth Root Post. He showed an interest in drawing at age five. He started formal art... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father, Walter Post, and George moved to Nevada. There his mother changed his surname to Post. As an adult he used George Booth Root Post. He showed an interest in drawing at age five. He started formal art classes in high school. His art instructor saw that he had considerable natural talent and George received a scholarship. He began his two and one half year education at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1924. There he was introduced... Read full biography
Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher. Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA). “Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father, Walter Post, and George moved to Nevada. There his mother changed his surname to Post. As an adult he used George Booth Root Post. He showed an interest in drawing at age five. He started formal art classes in high school. His art instructor saw that he had considerable natural talent and George received a scholarship. He began his two and one half year education at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1924. There he was introduced to painting en plein air. In 1927 George left the school and sought... Read full biography
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Submitted by Nancy Moure, Independent Art Researcher.Post, George Booth Root (1906-1997) (Lived in Bay Area, CA)“Watercolorist, painter, and educator. George Booth Root, III, was born at his grandfather's ranch in Oakland, California. In 1915 his mother, Ruth Godfrey Root, and step-father, Walter Post, and George moved to Nevada. There his mother changed his surname to Post. As an adult he used George Booth Root Post. He showed an interest in drawing at age five. He started formal art classes in high school. His art instructor saw that he had considerable natural talent and George received a scholarship. He began his two and one half year education at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1924. There he was introduced to painting en plein air.In 1927 George left the school and sought other employment. Mainly because he needed money. After working numerous menial labor jobs which gave him no satisfaction, he began wanting to find employment where he could use his talent. During this restless period of time, he met Stanley Wood and admired Stanley's paintings. These paintings sparked his interest in watercolor. In 1930 he met and married Lou Rusk MacLean. They had a daughter, Shelley, but they divorced several years later.In the 1940s he began teaching art. In 1949, he began teaching at the Brandt - Dike Summer School of Painting. He retired from teaching and painting in 1988. George resided in the city of San Francisco, painting occasionally, until his death in 1997. On March 26 he died of pneumonia. He was 91,”Source: Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea.Thumb amputated, died Jan. 2, 1945 in Los Angeles County.Facts gleaned from citations in PSCA, v. 13, no. 7.)
Additional information can be found in: Nancy Moure, Citation - and Additional material can be found in: Nancy Moure, “Central Coast Artist Visitors before 1960,” (PUBLICATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ART, VOL. 13, NO. VII), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2022.Biography from the Archives of askART
Born in Oakland, CA on Sept. 29, 1906. Post settled in San Francisco in 1919 and, after graduating from Polytechnic High School, studied at the CSFA (1924-26). He began exhibiting in the early 1930s and received favorable criticisms for his watercolors of the San Francisco Bay area and the Mother Lode country. He taught at Stanford University (1940), San Jose State College (1951-52), and the CCAC (1947-72). Having traveled and painted around the world, Post lived in San Francisco until his demise on March 26, 1997. Exh: Beaux Arts Gallery (SF), 1931 (solo); SF Art Center, 1932-34; SFMA, 1936, 1941 (solos); Calif.-Pacific Int'l Expo (San Diego), 1935; AIC, 1936; Calif. WC Society, 1936-53 (prizes); CPLH, 1939, 1945, 1960, 1965 (solos); Oakland Art Gallery, 1936, 1937 (solo), 1947 (prize); LACMA, 1936, 1945 (prize); Laguna Beach Museum, 1942 (solo); Springfield (MO) Museum, 1966; Zellerbach Show (SF), 1975 (1st prize); Challis Gallery (Laguna Beach), 1979 (solo); SWA, 1979 (1st prize). In: CHS; MM; SFMA; CPLH; Oakland Museum; Seattle Museum; San Diego Museum; Santa Barbara Museum; Mills College (Oakland); Sonora High School (mural).Biography from the Archives of askART
Born and raised in the Bay Area, George Post attended the California School of Fine Arts. In 1927, he went into advertising, printing and watercolor painting. In 1933, he lived in the Mother Lode mining area and also did a mining theme mural for Sonora High School. From 1937 to 1938, he traveled in Europe and Mexico, and in the 1940s was an art instructor at Stanford.
In 1947, Post became fine arts professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he taught until his 1973. From 1945 through 1955, he was associated with the Brandt-Dike Summer School. He is known for transparent watercolors of equipment and engines.
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Gordan McClelland, The California StyleBiography from CalART.com
Biography provided courtesy of "California Watercolors 1850-1970" By Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last.
George Post (1906-1997)... Born: Oakland, CA
Studied: California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Acad6mie Frochot (Paris)
Member: American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society.
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, 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.
By 1930, he was married and working as a commercial artist, while privately painting watercolors of San Francisco cityscape subjects. Although he 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 he became a committed watercolorist, producing works on a daily basis.
When California became known as the center of a new movement in watercolor painting, Post had already produced a large body of work and was prepared to do exhibitions at museum and gallery shows. He 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. His watercolors done for the P.WPA. 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, his works traveled in shows throughout America.
During World War 11, he helped with the war effort by working as a cargo storage planner for military ships. He would draw detailed charts showing where food, ammunition, and other supplies would be stored on board. These ships went to aid soldiers fighting in the South Pacific. While working on the docks, he also painted watercolors of the ships and harbor.
Post's watercolors, particularly the geometric abstractionist works done after the war, were well received in art circles throughout California. His 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 his 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, Post also taught art for many years. At first, he was opposed to the idea because he did not want to do anything except paint. But 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. He took the job with the understanding that he would be painting on location with his students. In the summers, he taught at the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting. When they closed the school, he 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.
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Interview with George Post, 1983.