The Steps, 1915

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 27.31 × 19.37 cm (10 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 31.12 × 22.23 cm (12 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

Catalogue Raisonné

Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 52

Accession Number

2015.19.437

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt (printer) American, 1859 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

center right in plate: Sept. 19 / Cos Cob / [the artist's monogram] / 1915; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp-; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: The Steps / THE STEPS; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: FOX

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hassam, Childe

Exhibition History

1940: Etchings by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940

1982: American Impressionist Prints, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 9

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

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. 44-45, no. 52.