About This Artwork

Childe Hassam
American, 1859-1935

Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I., 1901

Oil on canvas
61 x 66 cm (24 x 26 in.)
Signed lower left: Childe Hassam 1901

On back: c.1901
Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection, 1936.243

Unknown 449

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress," June 1-November 1, 1934, no. 449.

San Francisco, De Young Memorial Art Museum, "Exhibtiion of American Painting," June 7-July 7, 1935, no. 120.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, "Survey of American Painting," October 24-December 15, 1940, no. 180.

Milwaukee, Downer College, Chapman Memorial Library, "A Century of Landscape by American Artists," February 13-March 23, 1951, no. 10.

Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, "Sports and Recreation Panorama," April 4-May 4, 1959, no. 44.

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, "The Eden of America: Rhode Island Landscapes, 1820-1920," January 24-April 27, 1986.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 65.

Ownership History

Macbeth Galleries, by 1917.
Sold to Duncan Phillips, 1917.
Sold to Knoedler Gallery, February 18, 1929.
To Milch Galleries, by 1933.
Sold to Paul Schulze, 1936, and given to the Art Institute.




Interpretive Resources

Artist Biography: Childe Hassam