The Broad Curtain
1918
Artist, American, 1859 - 1935
Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithotint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.62 × 37.78 cm (10 7/8 × 14 7/8 in.)
sheet: 32.39 × 45.4 cm (12 3/4 × 17 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.481
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Catalogue Raisonné
Griffith 1962, no. 29
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
1982
American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1982, Washington, DC, no. 12
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. 20, 53, no. 29.
Inscriptions
lower right on stone: Child Hassam / Aug 1 1918; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Broad Curtain; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #16
Watermarks
[Shogun paulownia flower, from Japan Paper Company]
Wikidata ID
Q77009019