Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
PROPERTY OF THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART, OHIO, SOLD TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITION FUND
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

The North Gorge, Appledore, Isles of Shoals

Details
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
The North Gorge, Appledore, Isles of Shoals
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam/1912' (lower right)--signed again with initials (on the reverse prior to lining)
oil on canvas
20 x 14¼ in. (50.8 x 36.2 cm.)
Provenance
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, American Paintings and Sculpture: Contributed in Aid of the Relief Fund of the American Artists' Relief, 3-4 May 1917, no. 116.
Victor Harris, New York, acquired from the above.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1 April 1942, no. 23.
Frederick W. Schumacher, Columbus, Ohio, acquired from the above.
By bequest to the present owner, 1957.
Literature
W.R. Valentiner, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1955, p. 19.
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Modern American Painting: 1915, exhibition catalogue, San Diego, California, 1963, p. 14, no. 15, illustrated.
K. Parris, R. Phillips, The Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, Columbus, Ohio, 1976, pp. 50-52, illustrated.
D.F. Hoopes, Childe Hassam, New York, 1979, p. 80.
B. Bishop, "Nineteenth-Century American Paintings at the Columbus Museum of Art," The Magazine Antiques, vol. 120, no. 5, November 1981, pp. 1180, 1182, pl. 12, illustrated.
Columbus Museum of Art, Chefs-d'Oeuvre from the Columbus Museum of Art: Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, exhibition catalogue, Columbus, Ohio, 1983, pp. 50-51, no. 8, illustrated.
N.V. Maciejunes, N.J. Roberts, The American Collections, New York, 1988, pp. 32-33, 183, 236, illustrated.
D.P. Curry, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1990, pp. 156, 158, fig. 3.35, illustrated.
Exhibited
Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, February 2-May 24, 1960. San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Modern American Painting: 1915, December 6, 1962-January 6, 1963, no. 15.
Timmins, Ontario, and elsewhere, Chefs-d'Oeuvre from the Columbus Museum of Art: Frederick W. Schumacher Collection, May 27-July 10, 1983, no. 8.
Ashland, Kentucky, Paramount Art Center, Selections from the Frederick W. Schumacher Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art, September 7-October 7, 1986.
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Sea Around Us, June 5-September 12, 2010.

Lot Essay

We would like to thank Kathleen M. Burnside for her assistance cataloguing this work.

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

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