By Childe Hassam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled, and dated in the stone lower right.
Artist's cipher lower right (see photo)
Edition: 101
An impression of this lithograph is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hassam also created a painting of this historic Gloucester landmark in 1918 which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Universalist Independent Christian Church in Gloucester, Massachusetts was dedicated in 1806 and housed a congregation associated with the granting of religious freedom to all denominations. It was also celebrated for its bell, cast at Paul Revere's foundry.
Reference: Fuller Griffith, "The Lithographs of Childe Hassam: A Catalogue," Bulletin U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution 232 (1962):, No. 41
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches
Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries
Mrs. George A. Martin
Baldwin Wallace College, deaccessioned 2010
"Childe Hassam (1859–1935), a pioneer of American Impressionism and perhaps its most devoted, prolific, and successful practitioner, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts (now a suburb of Boston), into a family descended from settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Equally adept at capturing the excitement of modern cities and the charms of country retreats, Hassam (properly pronounced HASS-am) became the foremost chronicler of New York City at the turn of the century. In our day, he is perhaps best known for his depictions of flag-draped Fifth Avenue during World War I (67.187.127). His finest works manifest his brilliant handling of color and light and reflect his credo (stated in 1892) that “the man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of every-day life around him.”
After establishing his reputation in Boston between 1882 and 1886, Hassam studied from 1886 to 1889 in Paris. There he was unusual among his American contemporaries in his attraction to French Impressionism, which was just beginning to find favor with American collectors. Hassam returned to the United States late in 1889 and took up lifelong residence in New York. His signature images include views of Boston, Paris, and New York, three urban centers whose places and pleasures he captured with affection and originality. Examples include Winter in Union Square (43.116.2) and Spring Morning in the Heart of the City (43.116.1), both of which record lively sections of New York during the first decade of Hassam’s activity there.
While Hassam was unusual among the American Impressionists for his frequent depictions of burgeoning cities, he spent long periods in the countryside. There he found respite from urban pressures and inspiration for numerous important works of art. Hassam’s many portrayals of the old-fashioned gardens, rocky coast, and radiant sunlight of the Isles of Shoals...
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1910s Abstract Impressionist Childe Hassam Prints and Multiples
