Childe Hassam

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ALBERT DELMONT SMITH (1886-1962)
Childe Hassam
signed and dated 'Albert Smith 1922' (lower left)—signed and dated again 'Albert Delmont Smith/1922' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54 x 36 in. (137.2 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1922.

Provenance

Private collection.
Gift to the present owner from the above, 1925.

Literature

C.H.B. "Painting by Albert D. Smith Presented," Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. VII, no. 1, October 1925, pp. 5, 6 (as Portrait of Childe Hassam).
S.E. Strickler, The Toledo Museum of Art: American Paintings, Toledo, Ohio, 1979, pp. 100, 189, pl. 177, illustrated.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 9th Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, December 16, 1923-January 20, 1924, p. 67, no. 266.
Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 13th Annual Exhibition, 1924, no. 127.
Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 50th Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum, 1901-1951, August-September 1951.

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Lot Essay

Albert Delmont Smith was a renowned portrait painter who maintained a studio in New York City and East Hampton. After studying at the Art Students League, Smith later served as the director of the Heckscher Art Museum in Huntington, New York. The present work is an arresting portrait of eminent American Impressionist, Childe Hassam.

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