The Trap at the 15th, Maidstone Club, East Hampton

Details

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
The Trap at the 15th, Maidstone Club, East Hampton
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam 1923' with crescent device (lower right)--signed again with initials and dated again (on the reverse)--inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16½ x 29½ in. (41.9 x 75 cm.)

Provenance

The artist.
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, by bequest from the above, 1935.
Thomas Mellon Evans.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

Museum of Fine Arts, Sport in American Art, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1944, p. 14, no. 51 (as The Trap at the Fifteenth).

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Sport in American Art, October 10-December 10, 1944, no. 51 (as The Trap at the Fifteenth).

Lot Essay

We would like to thank the Hassam catalogue raisonné committee for their assistance with cataloguing this work.

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

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