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New England Headlands
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-left, on rocks, in pink paint: "Childe Hassam", in dark paint: "1899".
Provenance
Macbeth Galleries, New York City, by 1919; Paul Schulze, Chicago, from 1919 to 1930; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1930.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 561. Tucson, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, Feb. 5–Mar. 5, 1972; CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Mar. 26–Apr. 30, 1972, cat. 51. Richmond, Virginia Museum, American Marine Painting, Sept. 27–Oct. 31, 1976, cat. 55, as New England Headlands. Albi, France, Musee Toulouse–Lautrec, Tresors Impressionistes du Musee de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 45.
Publications
“The Walter H. Schulze Memorial,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24 (1930), p. 79 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1933 exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 71, cat. 561. Frederick A. Sweet, The Walter Schulze Gallery of American Paintings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1943), p. 14 (ill.). “‘New England Headlands’: A Painting by Childe Hassam,” Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 17, 1947, p. 1 of The Home Forum Section, ill. University of Arizona Museum of Art, Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, exh. cat. (University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1972), 84, 140, cat. 51 (ill.), https://archive.org/details/childehassam18590000unse. Milo M. Naeve, Classical Presence in American Art (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), p. 34, no. 45. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 64.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 68.9 × 68.9 cm (27 1/8 × 27 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- Gloucester
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1930.349
More by Childe Hassam in museum collections
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