Oil on Canvas. Excellent Condition. 30” x 33”

Biography

(American, Ohio/Connecticut/New York 1871 - 1935)

Edward Charles Volkert was the son of German & French immigrants, and an Impressionist painter from Cincinnati who came to be known as "America's Cattle Painter." In fact, he strove so hard to get their accurate depictions that he went to slaughter houses to study their anatomies.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who came from Alsace-Lorraine, France. During his early career, he was primarily a portraitist, and felt freest when he was painting with watercolors. However, he ceased portrait painting as a result of feelings he had from a divorce from a marriage where he had two children. He turned to landscape painting, usually expressions of deep love for nature and of devotion to rural areas untouched by industrialization. Often his scenes were bucolic with grazing cattle, hence the special recognition for that subject matter.

After his death, his "Cattle Logs" as he called them, were found in his studio. They were books of watercolor paper, each measuring 10 inches with miniature reproductions of most of the paintings he ever completed. His purpose was to be able to replace any painting ever lost or destroyed, so these logs were exact-to-scale and color miniature replicas.  » Learn More

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