Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Harbor of a Thousand Masts, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Details

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
Harbor of a Thousand Masts, Gloucester, Massachusetts
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam/Aug 22 1919' (lower left)
colored pencil and pencil on paper laid down on paper
10 x 10¼ in. (25.4 x 26 cm.)

Provenance

(Probably) Hersey Eggington, New York, circa 1925.
Russell G. Brown, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22 April 1954, lot 16.
J.A. Wippel, acquired from the above.
The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 27 May 1992, lot 91.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2005, lot 27.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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Lot Essay

The present work was likely a preparatory drawing for an etching by the artist of 1922. The etching is reproduced in R. Cortissoz, Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A., New York, 1925, pp. 79, 83, no. 211.

This drawing 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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