The Lithographer

1918

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithotint in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    image: 34.29 × 28.89 cm (13 1/2 × 11 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 42.55 × 31.43 cm (16 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.471

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Griffith 1962, no. 9


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

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

1948

  • Lithographs by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948

1955

  • Lithographs by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955

1980

  • The Common Touch, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980-1981, no. 20

2003

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

Bibliography

1962

  • Griffith, Fuller. The Lithographs of Childe Hassam: A Catalog, Bulletin 232. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1962, pp. 14, 33, no. 9.

Inscriptions

lower left on stone [in reverse]: April 22nd / Childe Hassam 1918; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] / print proof CH; lower left edge in green colored pencil by unknown hand: 1365 [circled]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: The Lithographer; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #6

Watermarks

Suede Finish, from Dill & Collins Company

Wikidata ID

Q77009016


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