Walt Whitman's Birthplace

1927

Childe Hassam

Associated Names
Childe Hassam

Artist, American, 1859 - 1935

The image shows a village scene with a house in the center, slightly to the right. The horizon is high in the composition, focusing on the immediate surroundings. There are no prominent elements directly on the horizon. The artwork features intricate linework with crosshatching techniques for texture and shading. The color palette is monochromatic, with black ink on a cream or off-white background. A wooden fence runs parallel to a dirt path leading to the house, surrounded by trees with foliage framing the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Addie Burr Clark

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.27 × 16.19 cm (4 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.9.75

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 284

Artwork history & notes

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, pp. 177, 179, no. 284.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp.

Wikidata ID

Q65071391

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