George Booth Post (September 29, 1906 – March 26, 1997) was an American

watercolorist Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

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.

Biography

Post was born as George Booth Root III at his grandfather's home in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. He spent several years in

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with his mother and stepfather Walter Post, then returned to California to live in

Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...

. In 1921, he received a scholarship to study at the

California School of Fine Arts San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...

(CSFA) now called the San Francisco Art Institute. His teachers were

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, Ray Boynton,

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, and Constance Lillian Jenkins Macky.http://www.calart.com/Data/featured/George_Post.asp Post was a long time faculty member at

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. He died of pneumonia in San Francisco, California at age 91.

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Collection Summary: An interview of George Booth Post conducted 1964 Apr. 9, by Lewis Ferbraché, for the Archives of American Art.George Post biography provided courtesy of “California Watercolors 1850-1970”California Watercolorist; George PostGeorge Post, Auction records
1906 births 1997 deaths American watercolorists Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area Federal Art Project artists California College of the Arts faculty San Francisco Art Institute alumni {{US-painter-stub