Old House at East Hampton

1916

Childe Hassam

Painter, American, 1859 - 1935

Childe Hassam

Attributed to

The image shows a view of a house, focusing on the facade and entrance. The house is covered with blue shingles, and the front door is open, revealing a staircase. The house is surrounded by green trees, one of which is blooming with pink flowers. The front of the house has several windows, and the windows of the upper story have blue shades on either side of them. The roof is painted with white and light blue, and has one central chimney in a pale peach color. The paint has been applied with visible brushstrokes in thin lines.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist [1859-1935]; purchased 1920 by George M. Oyster, Jr. [1849-1921], Washington;[1] his estate; bequest 21 January 1924 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Oyster probably purchased the painting from the Corcoran's 1919-1920 Seventh Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1917

  • Exhibition of Pictures by Childe Hassam, Montross Gallery, New York, 4-20 January 1917, no. 2.

1919

  • Seventh Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 December 1919 - 25 January 1920, no. 102, repro.

1935

  • Exhibition of American Painting, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 7 June - 7 July 1935, no. 121, repro.

1961

  • American Landscape Painters, 1800-1960, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, 3 March - 5 April 1961, no. 13.

1963

  • A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 31.

  • The Romantic Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 22 June - 9 September 1963, no catalogue.

1970

  • Loan for use by the Ambassador, U.S. Embassy, Moscow, 1971-1972.

1977

  • Loan for use by The White House, Washington, March 1977.

1981

  • Loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush, Vice President's Residence, United States Naval Observatory, Washington, 1981-1989.

1982

  • The Long Island Landscape 1914-1946: The Transitional Years, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, 13 June - 1 August 1982, no. 53.

1998

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

1999

  • American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, 11 September - 8 November 1999, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 40.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 299, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: Childe Hassam 1916

Wikidata ID

Q46633598

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