The Spar Shop, Gloucester

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: 20 × 30.8 cm (7 7/8 × 12 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 29.21 × 44.45 cm (11 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.485

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Griffith 1962, no. 23


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

2003

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

Bibliography

1962

  • Griffith, Fuller. The Lithographs of Childe Hassam: A Catalog, Bulletin 232. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1962, pp. 18, 47, no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left on stone: Childe Hassam / E. Gloucester July 8th, 1918; lower center in graphite: [the artist's monogram]; lower left edge in green colored pencil by unknown hand: 1909 [circled]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Spar Shop; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #20; lower right verso in red colored pencil by unknown hand: [check mark]

Watermarks

[Shogun paulownia flower, from Japan Paper Company]

Wikidata ID

Q77013042


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