First Leaves—Spring in Washington, St. John's, 1929

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Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.24 × 22.54 cm (6 × 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 24.45 × 32.07 cm (9 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

Catalogue Raisonné

Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 341

Accession Number

2015.19.443

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt (printer) American, 1859 - 1934

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Inscription

lower left in plate: [the artist's monogram] April 14th 1929 9AM; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: First Leaves St John's Washington 60; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 17 3/8 M567HA [crossed out] 839HA; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: FIRST LEAVES, ST. JOHN'S WASHINGTON; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #8

Provenance

the artist, New York; Mrs. Childe Hassam, New York, 1935; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hassam, Childe

Exhibition History

1940: Etchings by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940

1982: Washington on the Potomac, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982

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, p. 207, no. 341.