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Childe Hassam

Old House at East Hampton, 1916

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 81.92 × 100.33 cm (32 1/4 × 39 1/2 in.)

framed: 107.32 × 125.73 × 10.16 cm (42 1/4 × 49 1/2 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of George M. Oyster, Jr.)

Accession Number

2015.19.15

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (painter) American, 1859 - 1935

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Inscription

lower left: Childe Hassam 1916

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Oyster, George M., Jr.

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.

1963: 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.