The New York Window

1912

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Shown from the knees up, a woman wearing an ice- and teal-blue dress and shawl sits in front of a window in this vertical painting. The scene is painted loosely with brushstrokes especially evident in the clothing and background. The woman takes up the bottom left quadrant of the composition. Her knees are angled to our right, and she looks down in that direction. She is lit from our left so her face falls into shadow, but her profile is outlined against the sheer curtains hanging behind her. Her head bows slightly, and she has rosy cheeks, a rounded nose, and her lips are closed. Her brown hair is pulled loosely back and up. Her arms lie limp, one in her lap and the other, closer to us, alongside her body. A jewel-toned blue shawl is wrapped around her shoulders over a paler, long dress. The woman sits back in a window seat or bench against a leaf-green cushion. A turquoise-blue dish on the bench to our right is piled high with yellow and red fruit and glassy green grapes. Along the left edge of the canvas, next to the woman, white streaks suggest a cloth next to a form with honey-yellow specks painted on a bronze-orange shape, perhaps a basket. Translucent yellow curtains hang across the windows, which fill the top two-thirds of the canvas. Shapes painted in shades of smoky blue and peach outside suggest buildings and skyscrapers. A russet-red curtain is pulled to the right. The artist signed and dated the lower left corner, “Childe Hassam 1912.”

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1913 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1912

  • Forty-seventh Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, March-April 1912, no. 235.

  • Fourth Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, December 1912-January 1913, no. 165.

1936

  • The Main Currents in the Development of American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1936, no. 93, as New York Windows.

1938

  • XXIa Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'arte, Venice, 1938, no. 28,

1948

  • An Exhibition of American Painting from Colonial Times until Today, Saginaw Museum, Michigan, 1948, no. 25.

1957

  • Twenty-fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, 1957, no. 4.

  • Fifty Years at the Corcoran, Frye Museum, Seattle; University Museum, Arizona State College, Tempe; Quincy Art Club, Illinois; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Service League of Port Arthur, Texas; Winston-Salem Public Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist Univesity, Dallas; Miami Beach Art Center; Kent State University Museum; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Iowa, 1957-1958, no catalogue.

1966

  • Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1972

  • Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, University of Arizon, Museum of Art, Tucson; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1972, no. 86.

1995

  • Childe Hassam: City Streets and Rural Retreats, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1995, unnumbered catalogue.

1997

  • Impressionism: Paintings of Promise, Worcester Art Museum, 1997-1998, unnumbered catalogue.

1998

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

2000

  • Rave Reviews!: One Hundred Years of Great American Art, National Academy of Design, New York; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2000-2001, no. 63.

2002

  • The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, unpublished checklist.

2003

  • Portraits of Places: Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003, unpublished checklist.

  • The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, unpublished checklist.

2004

  • Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, no. 88.

2005

  • Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 71 (shown only in Washington).

2008

  • The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.

2009

  • American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June-18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.

2013

  • American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011

  • Larkin, Susan G. "Childe Hassam, _The New York Window." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 208-209, 212, 278, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Childe Hassam / 1912

Wikidata ID

Q20191661

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