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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.131
People
Childe Hassam, American (Boston, MA 1859 - 1935 E. Hampton, NY)
Title
Headlands
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1908
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230724

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.5 x 75.9 cm (25 x 29 7/8 in.)
framed: 83.8 x 95.9 x 6.7 cm (33 x 37 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Childe Hassam 1908
  • inscription: on back: monogram CH in circle

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Childe Hassam, bequest; to American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1935, sold; to Archer Huntington, New York, 1936 (1), gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

1. Huntington never had this work in his collection--he had it sent directly from the American Academy to the Fogg.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Archer M. Huntington, Esq.
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Adeline Adams, Childe Hassam, American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York, NY, 1938), reproduced in b/w opposite p. 44
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 122, ill.
  • James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), pp. 78-80, cat. 39, ill.
  • Roger B. Stein, Seascape and the American Imagination, exh. cat. (New York, NY, 1975), pp. 126-127, fig. 134
  • Jean C. Harris and Stephen Kern, Lasting Impressions: French and American Impressionism from New England Museums, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Springfield, MA, 1988), reproduced in b/w no. 44, p. 53
  • Austen Barron Bailly and John Coffey, ed., American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, 2016), repr. p. 53, repr. p. 73 as pl. 15

Exhibition History

  • Restorer/Conservation Exhibit, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/01/1970 - 02/28/1970
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery, 1970, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, 04/01/1970 - 04/30/1970
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974
  • Painted in Boston, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/02/1980 - 08/26/1980
  • Lasting Impressions: French and American Impressionism from New England Museums, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Springfield, 09/25/1988 - 11/27/1988
  • American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 03/19/2016 - 06/19/2016; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 07/16/2016 - 11/06/2016

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