Lot Details
Lot 62
Childe Hassam
American, 1859-1935
Haywagon in the Countryside
Signed Childe Hassam (ll)
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 1/4 inches
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York
This rural scene by Childe Hassam is painted in the umbrous tones frequently associated with the Barbizon School. Dating from around 1884-1885, it is consistent in theme with works executed after the artist's first trip abroad in 1883, while he was living and working once again in his native Boston. It was only after his second trip abroad that Hassam adopted a brighter palette and more impressionistic approach to painting. The crisp signature, with the terminal vertical stroke of the "m" extending downward, is also consistent with that employed by Hassam in this early phase of his career.
The piece relates to a number of other of thickly painted compositions from 1884 and 1885 that are generally considered American, not French, which depict pastoral landscapes and farm scenes, some including hay stacks, or, like the present work, a wagon traversing a country road. Among these are an 1884 Landscape (Collection Mead Art Museum, Amherst), and A Back Road (Brooklyn Museum of Art). We are grateful to Kathleen Burnside for her kind assistance in cataloguing this work.
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