Hickories in a Hayfield

1917

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt

Printer, American, 1859 - 1934

The image shows a landscape with fields and trees. There are tall trees on the left and right sides of the composition. In the background, there are more trees and low hills along the horizon. The color palette is black and white. The ground transitions from the trees to open fields with grass.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.62 × 23.81 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.08 × 32.39 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.457

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 144

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, pp. 101, 103, no. 144.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Aug 23 / [the artist's monogram] / 1917; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 2nd State / Hickories in a Hayfield; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 618577[crossed out] 890HA; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: #22

Wikidata ID

Q77011897

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