Old House at East Hampton

1916

Childe Hassam

Painter, American, 1859 - 1935

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1859-1935]; purchased 1920 by George M. Oyster, Jr. [1849-1921], Washington;[1] his estate; bequest 21 January 1924 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Oyster probably purchased the painting from the Corcoran's 1919-1920 Seventh Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1917

  • Exhibition of Pictures by Childe Hassam, Montross Gallery, New York, 4-20 January 1917, no. 2.

1919

  • Seventh Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 December 1919 - 25 January 1920, no. 102, repro.

1935

  • Exhibition of American Painting, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 7 June - 7 July 1935, no. 121, repro.

1961

  • American Landscape Painters, 1800-1960, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, 3 March - 5 April 1961, no. 13.

1963

  • A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 31.

  • The Romantic Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 22 June - 9 September 1963, no catalogue.

1970

  • Loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy, Moscow, 1971-1972.

1977

  • Loan for use by The White House, Washington, March 1977.

1981

  • Loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush, Vice President's Residence, United States Naval Observatory, Washington, 1981-1989.

1982

  • The Long Island Landscape 1914-1946: The Transitional Years, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 13 June - 1 August 1982, no. 53.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

1999

  • American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, 11 September - 8 November 1999, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 40.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 299, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Childe Hassam 1916

Wikidata ID

Q46633598


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