Provenance
The artist
Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Portland, Oregon, acquired from above, ca. 1904
Elizabeth Stein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, 1976
Campanile Galleries, Chicago, 1979
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980
Raymond J. Kenard, Jr., New York, acquired from above, 1980
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2004
Lynda Thomas, acquired from above, 2008
Related Works
Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals, 1901, oil on canvas, 24⅞ x 30⅛ inches, signed and dated lower right; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, 1902, oil on canvas, 25 3/16 × 30 5/16; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Bathers, 1904, oil on canvas, 48 3/16 x 148¼ inches; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Summer Sea, 1906, oil on canvas, 19½ x 29½ inches; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan
The Isle of Shoals, 1912, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Note: This painting will be included in the forthcoming addition to the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work by Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside.
The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands in the Atlantic six miles off the coast of southern New Hampshire and Maine. Childe Hassam first visited Appledore, the largest of the islands, in 1882. The location became an important one for the artist, who would go on to depict Appledore over 150 times throughout his career. This depiction was commissioned by Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852–1944), a friend and patron of Hassam, as part of a mural designed for the library of Wood’s home in Portland, Oregon. Hassam chose the rocky shores and vivid waters of the Isles of Shoals for the large-scale commission, creating a series of individual canvases in New York which were transported to Wood’s home. When Wood later sold the house, the mural was divided into five canvases and gifted to his children. The largest section of the mural, The Bathers, is now found in the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York.
Artist Biography
The premier American Impressionist painter of New York City
By Alexandra A. Jopp
Childe Hassam, often referred to as the “American Monet,” is one of the most admired American Impressionists, famous for his New York City street scenes, coastal views, and rural landscapes of New England.
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