The Flag

1917

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: 18.73 × 28.89 cm (7 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.5 × 36.2 cm (9 1/4 × 14 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.439

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 131

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

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, p. 93, no. 131.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: New York / [the artist's monogram] / May 2nd / 1917; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: The Flag; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: M298HA [crossed out] 903HA 12 3/8

Wikidata ID

Q77010693

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