Details
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
Against the Light
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam/1910' (upper right)
oil on canvas tacked over board
29¼ x 24¼ in. (74.3 x 61.6 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, acquired from the above, 1911.
Literature
I.L. White, "Childe Hassam: A Puritan," in The International Studio, XLV, December 1911, p. xxxiv, illustrated.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions," in Friends of American Art Second Year Book, Chicago, Illinois, 1912, p. 13, illustrated.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Paintings and Drawings, Chicago, Illinois, 1920, p. 42
N. Pousette-Dart, Childe Hassam, New York, 1922, illustrated (as Contre-Jour).
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings: Representative of the Life and Work of Childe Hassam, N.A., exhibition catalogue, New York, 1929, p. 33, no. 12, illustrated.
D.F. Hoopes, Childe Hassam, New York, 1979, pp. 76, 78.
Exhibited
New York, Montross Galleries, Exhibition of Pictures by Childe Hassam, February 1-24, 1911, no. 10 (as Contre-Jour).
Chicago, Illinois, Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago, 1922-23.
Buffalo, New York, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings: Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A., March 9-April 8, 1929, no. 12.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Leaders of American Impressionism: John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, October 1937, no. 52.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Civic Theater, Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection, January-February 1945.
Special notice
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