Old House at East Hampton
1916
Painter, American, 1859 - 1935
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 81.92 × 100.33 cm (32 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)
framed: 107.32 × 125.73 × 10.16 cm (42 1/4 × 49 1/2 × 4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.15
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