Childe Hassam, Spring, Navesink Highlands
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Childe Hassam

Spring, Navesink Highlands

1908

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
63.6 × 76.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-136751

Childe Hassam lived in New York, but he also spent a good deal of time away from the chaos of urban life, painting landscapes and quaint villages in New England. (Pyne, Art and the Higher Life, 1999) In this painting of New Jersey's Navesink Highlands, he used quick brushstrokes to capture the effect of a cool spring breeze in the flickering leaves and ripples on the water. After he had chosen a …

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans

Registry history

  • 1908 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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