The Little School House, Land of Nod

1918

Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 21.91 × 30.48 cm (8 5/8 × 12 in.)
    sheet: 29.21 × 45.56 cm (11 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.494

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Griffith 1962, no. 19

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

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

1948

  • Lithographs by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948

1955

  • Lithographs by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1955

Bibliography

1962

  • Griffith, Fuller. The Lithographs of Childe Hassam: A Catalog, Bulletin 232. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1962, pp. 17, 43, no. 19.

Inscriptions

lower left on stone: Childe Hassam / Land of Nod June 1918; lower right in graphite: [artist's monogram]; lower left edge in green colored pencil by unknown hand: 463 [circled]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Little Schoolhouse; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #29-

Watermarks

[Shogun paulownia flower, from Japan Paper Company]

Wikidata ID

Q77011938

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