Childe Hassam: patterns of appreciation

Magazine Antiques, July, 2004 by H. Barbara Weinberg

(26) "Brilliant Career of Childe Hassam Comes to a Close," Art News, vol. 33 (September 14, 1935), p. 12. See also Royal Cortissoz, "The Traits of the Late Childe Hassam," New York Herald Tribune, October 6, 1935, section 5, p. 10; Elisabeth Luther Cary, "Childe Hassam, Sterling Artist: An Appreciation," New York Times, September 1, 1935, p. 9.

(27) Adeline Adams, Childe Hassam (American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1938). The author was the wife of the sculptor Herbert Adams (1858-1945).

(28) John I. H. Baur, Leaders of American Impressionism (Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1937), p. 3.

(29) The exhibition was Paintings and Watercolors by Childe Hassam, Milch Galleries, New York City, April 26-May 15, 1943. See also R. B. H., "Revaluing Hassam, U.S. Impressionist," Art News, vol. 42 (May 1-14, 1943), p. 12; and M[aude] R[iley], "Noted American Impressionists--Lawson. Robinson. Hassam--Exhibited," Art Digest, vol. 17 (April 15, 1943), pp. 5-7, 30.

(30) "Childe Hassam," Art News, vol. 47 (March 8, 1948), p. 47. The exhibition was Childe Hassam Etchings. Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City, March 9-20, 1948.

(31) Jacob Getlar Smith, "Watercolors of Childe Hassam," American Artist, vol. 19 (November 1955), p. 51; and Grant Reynard, "The Prints of Childe Hassam, 1859-1935," American Artist, vol. 24 (November 1960), pp. 42-47.

(32) L. C., "Childe Hassam," Art News, vol. 57 (March 1958), pp. 13-14. The exhibition was Long Island Paintings by Childe Hassam, Milch Galleries, New York City, February 10-March 8, 1958.

(33) Stuart Preston, "Magic to Modern," New York Times, February 16, 1958, p. 14x.

(34) Mahonri Sharp Young, "A Quiet American," Apollo, new series, vol. 79 (May 1964), pp. 401-402. The exhibition was Childe Hassam, 1859-1935, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York City, February 18-March 7, 1964. Other exhibitions of Hassam's works held between 1935 and 1964 are listed in Childe Hassam, 1859-1935 (University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, 1972), p. 149.

(35) Charles E. Buckley, "Introduction," in Childe Hassam: A Retrospective Exhibition (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1965), p. 5.

(36) John J. Baratte, "Preface," in French Impressionists Influence American Artists (Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1971), p. 3. The exhibition comprised 165 works by French and American painters.

(37) Donelson F. Hoopes, The American Impressionists (Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1972); and Childe Hassam, 1859-1935 (University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, 1972). The Arizona exhibition was the last retrospective in a museum until the current Childe Hassam, American Impressionist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

(38) Moussa M. Domit, American Impressionist Painting (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1973). The show was also on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Cincinnati Art Museum; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

(39) See Dianne H. Pilgrim, American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973).