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IN PURSUIT OF LIGHT: THE COLLECTION OF CAROL AND TERRY WALL
CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)
The Big Parade
Details
CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)
The Big Parade
signed with artist's crescent device and dated 'Childe Hassam 1917' (lower right); signed with initials, signed with artist's crescent device and dated again 'C.H. 1917' (on the reverse)
oil on board
8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm.)
Painted in 1917
The Big Parade
signed with artist's crescent device and dated 'Childe Hassam 1917' (lower right); signed with initials, signed with artist's crescent device and dated again 'C.H. 1917' (on the reverse)
oil on board
8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm.)
Painted in 1917
Provenance
Mrs. Charles F. Kelley.
Danenberg Galleries, New York.
Meredith Long & Company, Houston.
Private collection, Houston; sale, Christie's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 214.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, April 2006.
Danenberg Galleries, New York.
Meredith Long & Company, Houston.
Private collection, Houston; sale, Christie's, New York, 29 May 1987, lot 214.
Private collection, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, April 2006.
Literature
I.S. Fort, The Flag Paintings of Childe Hassam, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988, p. 91 (illustrated, p. 92, fig. 45).
W. Adelson, J.E. Cantor and W.H. Gerdts, Childe Hassam: Impressionist, New York, 1999, pp. 65-66, 70 and 217 (illustrated in color, p. 67, fig. 74).
W. Adelson, J.E. Cantor and W.H. Gerdts, Childe Hassam: Impressionist, New York, 1999, pp. 65-66, 70 and 217 (illustrated in color, p. 67, fig. 74).
Exhibited
La Jolla, Art Center, La Jolla Collects, September-November 1960, no. 27 (illustrated).
New York, Adelson Galleries, Childe Hassam: An American Impressionist, November-December 1999, no. 78 (illustrated in color).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July-September 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024-February 2025.
New York, Adelson Galleries, Childe Hassam: An American Impressionist, November-December 1999, no. 78 (illustrated in color).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July-September 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024-February 2025.
Further Details
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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