The Steps

1915

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt

Printer, American, 1859 - 1934

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27.31 × 19.37 cm (10 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.12 × 22.23 cm (12 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.437

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 52

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, New York; Mrs. Childe Hassam, New York, 1935; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Etchings by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940

1982

  • American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 9

2003

  • Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003

Bibliography

1989

  • Cortissoz, Royal, and the Leonard Clayton Gallery. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A.. San Francisco, California: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, pp. 44-45, no. 52.

Inscriptions

center right in plate: Sept. 19 / Cos Cob / [the artist's monogram] / 1915; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp-; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: The Steps / THE STEPS; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: FOX

Wikidata ID

Q77008587

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