Childe Hassam 1859 - 1935

Milch Gallery, New York
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1980

Barbara Weinberg writes, "By the time Hassam began to frequent East Hampton, increasing property values and gentrification were sapping its power as an artistic magnet. He remarked matter-of-factly in 1923: 'Twenty-five years ago there were many artists here; not so many now.' He had, however, become the leader of the town's small artists' community after Thomas Moran moved to California in 1922. He also enjoyed East Hampton's social and recreational activities, especially the genteel Maidstone Club, founded in 1891, where he swam every day and on whose course at the end of Egypt Lane he played golf" (Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, New York, 2004, pp. 245-246).