Oyster Sloop, Cos Cob
1902
Childe Hassam
Artist, American, 1859 - 1935
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61.9 x 56.8 cm (24 3/8 x 22 3/8 in.)
framed: 86.4 x 81.3 x 7.6 cm (34 x 32 x 3 in.) -
Accession Number
1970.17.100
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Consigned by the artist 1931 to (Macbeth Galleries, New York); sold 1934 to New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; sold 1952 to (Vose Galleries, Boston); sold 1952 to John Fox, Boston, and Fairfield, Connecticut; (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold 20 January 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], Long Island, New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] Provenance according to NGA curatorial files and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA archives.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Possibly Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1931 (Newark has no record).
1932
One Man's Taste in Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1932, no. 39.
1934
Columbia University, New York, 1934.
1970
Extended loan for use by The White House, Washington, D.C., 1970-1975.
1979
Extended loan for use by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington, D.C., 1979-1980.
1981
Extended loan for use by Vice President and Mrs. George Bush, Washington, D.C., 1981-1987.
1987
Child Hassam in Connecticut, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1987-1988, no. 4 (cat. by Kathleen M. Burnside).
1998
American Light: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, May-August 1998, no cat.
Treasures of Light: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, March-April 1998, no cat.
2001
The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore, National Academy of Design Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Denver Art Museum, 2001-2002, no. 48, repro.
2004
Childe Hassam, American Impressionist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 158.
2008
Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2007-2008.
2013
Oysters, the Pearls of Long Island Sound, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2013-2014, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1938
Adams, Adeline. Childe Hassam. New York, 1938: 85.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 172, repro.
1981
Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 192, repro., as Oyster Sloop.
1987
Burnside, Kathleen M. Childe Hassam in Connecticut. Exh. cat. Florence Griswold Museum. Old Lyme, 1987: 10-11, no. 4.
1991
Larkin, Susan G. "Light, Time, and Tide: Theodore Robinson at Cos Cob." The American Art Journal, XXIII (1991): fig. 27.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 196, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 280-283, color repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: Childe Hassam 1902
Wikidata ID
Q20190823