Columbian Exposition, Chicago; Childe Hassam Gouache on tan paper, 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27.0 x 35.6 cm). Image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Almost monochromatic — though the tan paper and the use of Read More …
Washington Arch, Spring, Childe Hassam The link is to a zoomable version on the GoogleArt Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. What has always fascinated me about this painting — one of Hassam’s Read More …
The Victorian Chair, Childe Hassam Link is to the Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum (which also has a zoom feature, though the Google one is a bit smoother). What a wonderful portrait — Read More …
Unlike the French Impressionists, there was really no formal group that called themselves “American Impressionists”; this is a label writers have applied to American painters who adopted elements of Impressionist style and technique to their work. There was however, “The Ten American Painters”, a group Read More …
Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, and Flags, Fifth Avenue; Childe Hassam First link is to Princeton University Art Museum, which has the original oil in its collection (there is also a version on Wikimdeia Commons); the second link is to Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the Read More …
Peach Blossoms—Villers-le-Bel, Childe Hassam In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met’s collection pages have changed somewhat; the controls to zoom and download are now available directly under the image. A beautiful, direct and deceptively simple painting by one of the foremost of the artists Read More …