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CHILDE HASSAM
Frame House with aWoman and a Dog
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Pen and black ink on Bristol board, circa 1882. 155x190 mm; 6
1
/
8
x7
1
/
2
inches. Signed in
ink, lower left recto. Annotated in pen and ink and pencil, right margin recto.With the
Reynolds’s Bristolboard blind stamp, upper right recto.
This work has been accepted into the files for inclusion in the forthcoming Childe Hassam
catalogue raisonné, currently in preparation by Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen Burnside
According to Burnside this is likely an early illustration by Hassam.
Known as an American Impressionist, Hassam began as an illustrator before moving to Paris
to pursue a formal art education at the Académie Julian. As one of the group of TenAmerican
Painters, Hassam devoted himself to exploring painting techniques influenced by the avant-
garde style of the Impressionist
Salon de Refusés
artists, notably Manet and Whistler, in full
swing in Paris during the 1860s and 1870s, bringing this experience back to the United States
where he became the foremost American Impressionist painter.
[7,000/10,000]
