Lot 27
  • 27

Childe Hassam 1859-1935

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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • The Harbor of a Thousand Masts, Gloucester
  • signed Childe Hassam and dated Aug 22 1919, l.l.
  • pencil and pastel on paper
  • 10 by 10 1/4 in.
  • (25.4 by 26 cm)

Provenance

Russell G. Brown, Greenwich, Connecticut (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, April 22, 1954, no. 16)
J.A. Rippel (acquired at the above sale)
The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1992, no. 91, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Catalogue Note

This drawing relates to Hassam's 1922 etching of the same title.  It may be the one to which Royal Cortissoz refers in Childe Hassam: Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points, as belonging to Hersey Eggington, a prominent New York collector of the 1920's.