CHILDE HASSAM (American, 1859 - 1935). Colonial Church, Gloucester, circa 1918, Lithograph in black on wove paper. Signed, titled and dated on the stone. Signed in pencil, lower center. Present artwork is likely out of an edition of 101 finished on September 2018. Printer: George C. Miller. Framed. Not examined out of frame.
- 14 x 10.5 in; frame: 19.5 x 16.5 Estimate $700-1,200
A founding member of the turn-of-the-century American Impressionist group known as "The Ten," Childe Hassam channeled the movement's preoccupation with the expressive qualities of light, lively brushwork and color into pastoral landscapes and scenes of everyday urban life in New York, Boston, and Paris. His "flag paintings"-depictions of the parades along New York's Fifth Avenue during World War I-offer seminal images of Americana. Hassam sharpened his skills as a draftsman while working for an engraver in Boston, then developed an interest in plein air painting. After establishing himself as an artist in the United States, he studied in Paris and took inspiration from the city's avant-garde movements. Hassam was commercially and critically successful during his lifetime, exhibiting widely across the U.S. and winning numerous awards. His work belongs in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other institutions, and has sold for millions at auction.
