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The Little Pond, Appledore
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right, on grass, in black paint: "Childe Hassam 1890".
Provenance
Private collection, by 1929 [lent to New York 1929]. Lauren Jay Drake Jr. (1880–1954), Chicago, by 1954; by descent to his niece, Theresa Mary Drake (1914–1982), San Francisco, by 1954; by descent to Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, New Orleans, 1982 [Gwendolyn Boyd’s father, David Boyd, was Theresa Drake's cousin; correspondence from Mr. Andrew Graybar, Dec. 20, 1990, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, 1984; sold to Marshall Field, Chicago, 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.
Exhibition history
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A. Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels, Apr. 1929, cat. 4. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Childe Hassam, An Island Garden Revisited, Apr. 4–June 10, 1990, cat. 76. Lugano–Castagnola, Switzerland, Fondazione Thyssen–Bornemisza, American Impressionism, July 22–Oct. 28, 1990, cat. 41. Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, Mar. 19–June 19, 2016, cat. 6; Salem, NC, Peabody Essex Museum, July 16–Nov. 6, 2016.
Publications
Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A.; Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels, exh. cat. (Macbeth Gallery, 1929), cat. 4. William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Abbeville Press, 1984), 21 (ill.). Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The Art of Collecting, exh. cat. (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1984), 36, cat. 24. James N. Wood, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 95 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1986–1987 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 7, pl. 10 (ill.). Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Nov. 4, 1988): 1, 60–62 (ill.). Midwest Art History Society, Newsletter 15B (Fall 1988), 5 (ill.). David Park Curry, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, exh. cat. (Denver Art Museum, 1990), cat. 76. William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism: Masterworks from Public and Private Collections in the United States, exh. cat. (Pondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1990), cat. 41. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 273–75, cat. 135 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 110–11, cat. 57 (ill.). Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey, eds., American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 6.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 40.6 × 55.8 cm (16 × 22 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- New Hampshire
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Friends of American Art and the Walter H. Schulze Memorial collections
- Accession no.
- 1986.421
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