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Childe Hassam

Au Grand Prix de Paris (At the Grand Prix de Paris), 1887

Not on View

Medium

pastel over graphite on paperboard coated with sawdust

Dimensions

board: 40.48 × 31.75 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Accession Number

2014.79.39

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in pastel: Childe Hassam 1887

Provenance

(Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York); James Parmelee, Washington, DC, 1927; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parmelee, James

Exhibition History

1891: Doll and Richards, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891, no. 43

1927: Etchings, Lithographs, Lithotints, Drawings, Water-colors and Pastels by Childe Hassam, Arthur H. Harlow & Company, New York, 1927, no. 111

1965: Childe Hassam: A Retrospective Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Masachusetts; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; Gallery of Modern Art, New York, 1965, no. 64, repro

1978: American Pastels from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978

1980: That’s Entertainment, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1983: Sargent's Contemporaries, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983, no. 14

1983: The Grand Tour, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1979: Hoopes, Donelson F. Childe Hassam. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979, pp. 30-31, pl. 5.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 120, no. 803.

1988: Pisano, Ronald G. Idle Hours: Americans at Leisure, 1865-1914. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1988, p. 139.

1990: Conrads, Margaret. American Painting and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990, p. 62, fig. 23.

1990: Curry, David Park. Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, p. 124, pl. 56.

1994: Hiesinger, Ulrich W. Childe Hassam: American Impressionist. Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1994, p. 43, fig. 36.

1999: Adelson, Warren. "Childe Hassam and the French Impressionists." Magazine Antiques 156, no. 6 (November 1999): p. 695, fig. 1.

2002: Heartney, Eleanor, ed. A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2002, pp. 48-49.

2003: Denker, Eric, and Herbert L. Cooper. "The Prints of Childe Hassam." American Art Review 15, no. 3 (May 2003): p. 93.

2004: Weinberg, H. Barbara. Childe Hassam: American Impressionist. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, p. 67, fig. 63.

2007: Frank, Susan Behrends. American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape. New York: Rizzoli, 2007, pp. 26-27, fig. 10.