Lot 89
  • 89

Childe Hassam

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Andover, Massachusetts
  • signed Childe Hassam and dated September 1930 and inscribed with the artist's device (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 30 by 75 1/2 inches
  • (76.2 by 191.8 cm)

Provenance

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (bequest of the artist)
The Milch Galleries, New York, 1958
Dr. Simon Stone, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1959 (acquired from the above)
Wildenstein & Co., New York, by 1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1979 (acquired from the above)
Dumont-Landis Fine Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984 (acquired from the above)
Private collection, New York, 1984
Sold: Christie's, New York, December 4, 2003, lot 80
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale 

Exhibited

Tuscon, Arizona, University of Arizona Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, February-April 1972, no. 128, p. 145
Houston, Texas, Wildenstein Art Center, American Paintings from the Late 18th Through the Early 20th Century, 1978, no. 18 (as Merrimac River)
Charleston, West Virginia, Sunrise Museum, America's Best: 1820-1920, July-September 1981, no. 36, p. 9

Condition

The canvas is wax lined. There is minor frame abrasion at edges and very fine lines of surface cracking in the areas of thicker impasto. Under UV: there are scattered lines and spots of inpainting in the sky and two dots near the center top edge.
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Catalogue Note

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