Sterling Turner

Details

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
Sterling Turner
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam/Shoals July 1890' (lower left)
pastel on paper laid down on board
9½ x 7¾ in. (241. x 19.7 cm.)

Provenance

(Possibly) Ross Turner.
(Possibly) by descent in the family.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1961.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1962.
[With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1964.
Frank J. Kelly, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1964.
Farr Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1978.

Literature

Westmoreland County Museum, Founder's Day Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1965, n.p., illustrated.
M.C. Conrads, American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1990, pp. 60-62, illustrated.

Exhibited

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Museum, Founder's Day Exhibition, 1965.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Museum, Frank J. Kelly Collection, 1973.

Lot Essay

Sterling Turner was the son of Ross Turner, a fellow artist and friend of Childe Hassam. Hassam executed four known pastels of children in the 1890s including the present work. The others are: Little Girl with Pear (circa 1889-93, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts), Portrait of Elizabeth Wolcott Tuckerman (1892, private collection), and Portrait of Katherine Thaxter (1893, private collection).

This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.

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