Oyster Sloop, Cos Cob

1902

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.9 x 56.8 cm (24 3/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
    framed: 86.4 x 81.3 x 7.6 cm (34 x 32 x 3 in.)

  • Accession

    1970.17.100

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Consigned by the artist 1931 to (Macbeth Galleries, New York); sold 1934 to New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; sold 1952 to (Vose Galleries, Boston); sold 1952 to John Fox, Boston, and Fairfield, Connecticut; (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold 20 January 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], Long Island, New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] Provenance according to NGA curatorial files and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA archives.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Possibly Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1931 (Newark has no record).

1932

  • One Man's Taste in Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1932, no. 39.

1934

  • Columbia University, New York, 1934.

1970

  • Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1970-1975.

1979

  • Extended loan for use by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1979-1980.

1981

  • Extended loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, Washington, D.C., 1981-1987.

1987

  • Child Hassam in Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1987-1988, no. 4 (cat. by Kathleen M. Burnside).

1998

  • American Light: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, May-August 1998, no cat.

  • Treasures of Light: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, March-April 1998, no cat.

2001

  • The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore, National Academy of Design Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Denver Art Museum, 2001-2002, no. 48, repro.

2004

  • Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 158.

2008

  • Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2007-2008.

2013

  • Oysters, the Pearls of Long Island Sound, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2013-2014, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1938

  • Adams, Adeline. Childe Hassam. New York, 1938: 85.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 172, repro.

1981

  • Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 192, repro., as Oyster Sloop.

1987

  • Burnside, Kathleen M. Childe Hassam in Connecticut. Exh. cat. Florence Griswold Museum. Old Lyme, 1987: 10-11, no. 4.

1991

  • Larkin, Susan G. "Light, Time, and Tide: Theodore Robinson at Cos Cob." The American Art Journal, XXIII (1991): fig. 27.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 196, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 280-283, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Childe Hassam 1902

Wikidata ID

Q20190823

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