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Fifth Avenue
1919
Childe Hassam
Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)
American Painting and Sculpture
Fifth Avenue, 1919. Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Oil on canvas; framed: 86.4 x 76.2 x 6.4 cm (34 x 30 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 61.3 x 51.5 cm (24 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.); former: 76.5 x 66.5 x 4.5 cm (30 1/8 x 26 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1952.539 During World War I, the fiercely nationalistic Hassam was mistakenly arrested for being a German spy.
- Maker/Artist
- Hassam, Childe
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 86.4 x 76.2 x 6.4 cm (34 x 30 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 51.5 cm (24 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.); Former: 76.5 x 66.5 x 4.5 cm (30 1/8 x 26 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed lower right: Childe Hassam 1919
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1952.539
- Credit Line
- Anonymous Gift
- Exhibitions
- Art: The International Language, Impressionism and its Roots, Childe Hassam: A Retrospective Exhibition, American Impressionistic Painting, American Cities: The Artist's View, Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age, Iowa City, The University of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and Its Roots (8 November-6 December 1964), cat. no. 47, illus. p. 29.<br>Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Childe Hassam: A Retrospective Exhibition (30 April-1 August 1965); traveled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (17 August-19 September 1965); to Manchester, NH, The Currier Gallery of Art (28 September-31 October 1965); to New York, The Gallery of Modern Art (16 November-19 December 1965); cat. no. 55, illus. p. 34.<br>Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, American Impressionist Painting (1 July-26 August 1973); traveled to New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art (18 September-2 November 1973); to Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum (15 December 1973-31 January 1974); to Raleigh, The North Carolina Museum of Art (8 March-29 April 1974); cat. no. 36, illus. p. 96.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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