The Chase House

1929

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

The image shows a front view of a brick building with a central entrance, flanked by windows. The perspective is at eye level, capturing the building's base and the sidewalk. Linear brushstrokes detail the texture of the bricks and foliage. The monochromatic color palette uses shades of gray and black. In the foreground, a child stands near a fence, while two adults climb stairs leading to the entrance, where another person is visible. In the background, a tree's branches extend from the left side of the building.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.6 x 21.4 cm (6 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 23.3 x 29.6 cm (9 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4816

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 309

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 67.

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 231.

1951

  • Contemporary American Prints, Berlin, Germany, 1951-1952.

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. 187, 191, no. 309.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Annapolis April 17th 1929; lower right in plate: [the artist's monogram] / 1929; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Wikidata ID

Q64954466

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