An Impression

Details

CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)
An Impression
signed, dated and inscribed with title 'F. Childe Hassam/1882' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
9 x 11 ¼ in. (22.9 x 28.6 cm.)
Executed in 1882.

Provenance

Frank Winton, Birmingham, Michigan.
Susan Winton, Birmingham, Michigan, daughter of the above, by 1965.
Mr. and Mrs. Morton Baum, East Hampton, New York, by 1967.
Davis & Long Company, New York, 1973.
Mimi and Sanford Feld, Far Hills, New Jersey, acquired by the above, 1974.
Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Williams & Everett Galleries, Water Colors by Fred C. Hassam, 1882, no. 20.
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, Childe Hassam: A Retrospective Exhibition, April 30-December 19, 1965, p. 36, no. 62.
East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall, Childe Hassam, July 30-August 16, 1967.
University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, Museum of Art; Aspen, Colorado, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Selections from the Collection of Mimi and Sanford Feld, March 22-November 22, 1981, n.p., no. 7, illustrated.
New York, Owen Gallery, Off the Northeast Coast: An Exhibition of 19th & 20th Century American Artists who Painted Along the Shore & Off the Islands of the Northeast Coast, October 23-December 13, 2003.

Further details

This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld’s and Kathleen M. Burnside’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

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Lot Essay

In 1882, Childe Hassam visited Nantucket, painting a series of watercolors focused on the island's picturesque cottages and seaside. Likely painted during this trip, An Impression was included in Hassam's first ever solo exhibition, which was held at Williams & Everett Galleries of Boston that fall. This debut show earned the artist early praise, as a critic described: "The best feature about the collection is its fresh 'outdoor' feeling...Many of the subjects are quaint studies at Nantucket--bits of beach, with boats and figures; old cottages, with glimpses of sea and sky...all happily selected subjects." (as quoted in H.B. Weinberg, Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, New York, 2004, p. 356)

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