The Jonathan Baker Farm

1924

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt

Printer, American, 1859 - 1934

The scene shows rolling fields leading towards farm buildings. The horizon line is high in the composition with trees and buildings. The etching technique creates fine, linear strokes for a sketch-like quality. The color palette is monochromatic in shades of black and white. The fields have detailed patterns and the buildings and trees add vertical elements to the horizontal view.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.59 × 33.97 cm (4 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 26.04 × 40.32 cm (10 1/4 × 15 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.461

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 234

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1940

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

2003

  • Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Hassam, an American Impressionist, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003

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. 141, no. 234.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: May 23rd / [the artist's monogram] / 1924; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Jonathan Baker Farm 2nd st.; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 787HA 569HH [strikethrough]; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 3 1/2" x 3"; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: #26

Watermarks

VAN GELDER ZONEN / HOLLAND

Wikidata ID

Q77009002

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