Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I.

Arts of the Americas

1901

Childe Hassam
American, 1859–1935

Childe Hassam, like other American Impressionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recorded scenes of leisure and recreation, especially country vacation retreats. This painting portrays fashionable Bailey’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island, an exclusive seaside town known at the time for its wealth and luxury. Hassam depicted sand dunes rising from behind the beach with the promenade and its costumed bathers at a distance, reinforcing the fact that he, and the viewer, are excluded from this privileged setting. The artist’s Impressionist strategies—including the use of scintillating colors, energetic brushwork, and a light palette—capture the vibrant atmosphere of this sunny resort.

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Childe Hassam
Title: Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I.
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1901
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: Childe Hassam 1901 On back: c.1901
Dimensions: 61 × 66 cm (24 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1936.243
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Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934 exh. cat. (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 66, cat. 449.
Walter Heil, Exhibition of American Painting, exh. cat. (San Francisco: M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1935), cat. 120.
Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, 1670–1940, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1940), cat. 180.
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Sports and Recreation Panorama, exh. cat. (Davenport: Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, 1959), cat. 44.
Judith A. Barter et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), no. 65.
Art in Embassies, exh. cat. (Washington, DC: Art in Embassies, 2020), no cat. no.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 449.
San Francisco, De Young Memorial Art Museum, Exhibtition of American Painting, June 7–July 7, 1935, cat.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 180.
WI, Milwaukee–Downer College, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13 – Mar. 23, 1951, cat. 10. (only checklist on back of symposium brochure, The Arts in Society, Milwaukee–Downer College Feb. 13, 1951).
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Sports and Recreation Panorama, Apr. 4–May 4, 1959, cat. 44.
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, The Eden of America: Rhode Island Landscapes, 1820–1920, Jan. 24–Apr. 27, 1986, cat.
Brussels, United States Embassy, Whitlock Hall, Art in Embassies Exhibition, May 15, 2019–Dec. 13, 2020, no cat. no.

The artist, 1901. Macbeth Galleries, New York, by 1917. Sold to Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), Washington, DC, 1917. Sold to Knoedler Gallery, New York, February 18, 1929. To Milch Galleries, New York, by 1933. Sold to Paul Schulze, Chicago, 1936; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1936.

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