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Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals

Artist Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)

Date1902

DimensionsPainting: 25 3/16 × 30 5/16 in. (64 × 77 cm)
Frame: 34 × 39 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (86.4 × 101 × 9.5 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1912.3

Not on View

Label TextLike many New England artists and authors, summers for American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam were often spent at Appledore, one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. But painting wasn’t Hassam’s first job. He was an accountant for a short period before becoming a wood engraver, only painting in his spare time. He would go on to make wood-engraved illustrations for magazines such as Harper’s Weekly and Scribner’s, but he found his Impressionist inspiration after studying painting in Paris. Similar to Monet, Hassam painted outdoors, using expressive and visible brushstrokes to capture the fleeting and shifting light, color, and movement of the landscape.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 58-59, pl. 103.

Gerdts, William H., Ten American Painters, New York, Spanierman Gallery, 1990, p. 55, 57, repr. (col) fig. 75.

Park Curry, David, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, p. 156, repr.( col) pl. 77.

Barron Bailly, Austen, ed. , American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2016, repr. (col.) p. 54 (pl. 23), pl. 23, p. 82.

Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas, New York, The New York Botanical Garden, 2016, p. 46, repr. (col) fig. 31, p. 48.

Exhibition HistorySt. Louis, City Art Museum, Fifth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, 1910.

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings...by Childe Hassam, N. A., 1929, no. 129.

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum, 1901-1951, 1951.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum, Special Loan for Exhibition and Study, Feb. - Aug. 1959.

Mansfield, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape, 1981, no. 32.

Madison, Madison Art Center, American Impressionist Painting, 1984-1985, no. 18.

New York, Spanierman Gallery, Ten American Painters, 1990.

New Haven, Yale University Art Museum; Denver, Denver Art Museum; Washington, National Museum of American Art, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, 1990.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Salem, MA, Peabody Essex Museum; American Impressionist: Childe Hassam on the Isles of Shoals, March 20-November 6, 2016.