The Little Pond, Appledore

1890

Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)

One of the Isles of Shoals located off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, Appledore Island was the home of the poet Celia Thaxter and attracted numerous artists and writers to its rocky shores during the late 19th century. The Little Pond, Appledore dates from Childe Hassam’s first summer sojourn there, after three years spent working in Europe, and reflects his burgeoning interest in the bright palette, broken brushwork, and dramatic light effects of Impressionist painting.

Status: On View, Gallery 171
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Childe Hassam
Title: The Little Pond, Appledore
Place: New Hampshire (Place depicted:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right, on grass, in black paint: "Childe Hassam 1890".
Dimensions: 40.6 × 55.8 cm (16 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior acquisition of the Friends of American Art and the Walter H. Schulze Memorial collections
Reference Number: 1986.421
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Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A.; Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels, exh. cat. (New York: Macbeth Gallery, 1929), cat. 4.
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), 21 (ill.).
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The Art of Collecting, exh. cat. (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1984), 36, cat. 24.
James N. Wood, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 95 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report, 1986–1987 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), 7, pl. 10 (ill.).
Marvin D. Schwartz, “The Art Institute’s New Wing,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Nov. 4, 1988): 1, 60–62 (ill.).
Midwest Art History Society, Newsletter 15B (Fall 1988), 5 (ill.).
David Park Curry, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum; New York: W.W. Norton, 1990), cat. 76.
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism: Masterworks from Public and Private Collections in the United States, exh. cat. (Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland: Pondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1990), cat. 41.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 273–75, cat. 135 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), 110–11, cat. 57 (ill.).
Austen Barron Bailly and John W. Coffey, eds., American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, exh. cat. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), cat. 6.

New York, Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A. Covering the Period from 1880 to 1919 Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels, Apr. 1929, cat. 4.
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Childe Hassam, An Island Garden Revisited, Apr. 4–June 10, 1990, cat. 76.
Lugano–Castagnola, Switzerland, Fondazione Thyssen–Bornemisza, American Impressionism, July 22–Oct. 28, 1990, cat. 41.
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, Mar. 20–Nov. 6, 2016; Salem, NC,, Peabody Essex Museum, July 16–Nov. 6, 2016, cat. 6.

Private collection, by 1929 [lent to New York 1929]. Lauren Jay Drake Jr. (1880–1954), Chicago, by 1954; by descent to his niece, Theresa Mary Drake (1914–1982), San Francisco, by 1954; by descent to Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, New Orleans, 1982 [Gwendolyn Boyd’s father, David Boyd, was Theresa Drake’s cousin; correspondence from Mr. Andrew Graybar, Dec. 20, 1990, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, 1984; sold to Marshall Field, Chicago, 1984; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.

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