Edward Charles Volkert

Place: Cincinnati

Born: 1871

Death: 1935

Biography:

Edward Charles Volkert was an American Impressionist artist born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1871. He is best known for his colorful and richly painted impressionist landscapes featuring cattle and plowmen. Volkert's style is characterized by his impressionist use of light, applied in small dots of paint, while maintaining an interest in the true forms and colors of his subject matter. He has been referred to as 'America's cattle painter extraordinaire'. Volkert died in Old Lyme, Connecticut in 1935.