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Study for Shingling the First Baptist Church, Gloucester, 1919
8¼ x 10⅝ inches (sight size)
Signed and dated lower right: Childe Hassam July 1[5?] 1919
Provenance
Aaron Gallery, Festus, Missouri, 1985
Private collection, Oklahoma
Sale, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, November 4, 2022, lot 67091, from above
Related Works
The Church at Gloucester, 1918, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, signed and dated lower left; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Church at East Gloucester, 1919, oil on panel, 21¼ x 24¼ inches; Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California
Shingling the First Baptist Church, Gloucester, oil on canvas, 40½ x 50½ inches, signed and dated lower left; private collection
Note: This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work by Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside.
This watercolor is likely a study for a larger painting on canvas, titled Shingling the First Baptist Church, Gloucester, which sold at auction on November 20, 2014 through Sotheby’s for $3,525,000.
Childe Hassam visited the seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts numerous times throughout his career. The fishing village offered the artist picturesque views to sketch, and he painted several similar depictions looking down from a high vantage point. Hassam created this watercolor in July of 1919.