GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The wide-angle view of a city street was an early and long standing subject for Childe Hassam. Carriages, particularly horse-drawn cabs for hire, attracted the artist's attention starting in 1885 when he depicted a Boston thoroughfare during a rain shower. The snowy scene was painted in Paris, where Hassam lived from 1886 to 1889 while taking classes at the Acadêmie Julian. In a letter dated January 1887, around the same time he created Along the Seine, Winter, Hassam concluded "I have unquestionable arrived at my selection of subjects." This same year, he received positive reviews for a large painting of carriages queued at a cab station shown at the annual Salon.
The influence of French Impressionism is apparent in both his selection of subject and technique. In this and other works from the late 1880s, Hassam focused on Parisian daily life and atmospheric effects. The dark forms of a horse and buggy are surrounded by the nearly monochromatic environment of gray-brown sky, river, wall, and roadway. Brushstrokes remain visible, and the thick paint application along the lower edge enhances the suggestion of piled snow.
Excerpt from
Emily Schiller, DMA label text
NOTES
Created in 1887
Object file reviewed
Exhibitions:
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York. "Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A.," 1929 (3/9-4/8), no. 86 (lent by Joel T. Howard);
Macbeth Gallery, New York. "Exhibitions of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A., Covering the Period from 1888 to 1919, Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels," April 1929,
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas. "The Joel T. and Kathryn Howard Collection of American Painting," February 3-24, 1952, no. 16.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. "Behind the Scenes, Conservation Studio," September 15, 2013-November 2, 2014.
5/2014--Sue Canterbury
In an exchange with Kathleen Burnside, the author of the Hassam catalogue raisonne (aftersupplying her with a more color-accurate image of the work), she is quite certain that our work is the one that was in the American Art Association sale of 1896 by the title, Along the Seine, Evening. She wrote: "I know of no other work that fits as accurately and it is an unusual subject. It does seem to be very much of an evening scene with your photo."
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Hassam, Childe (American, 1859-1935)
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Depicted location: Seine River (France): TGN: 7009707
Depicted location place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
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n.d. Cameron Turner, Beverly, Massachusetts
From 1951: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, bequest of Joel T. Howard [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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- Childe Hassam, Biography~Learn more about Childe Hassam at the Phillips Collection.
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General Description
The wide-angle view of a city street was an early and long standing subject for Childe Hassam. Carriages, particularly horse-drawn cabs for hire, attracted the artist's attention starting in 1885 when he depicted a Boston thoroughfare during a rain shower. The snowy scene was painted in Paris, where Hassam lived from 1886 to 1889 while taking classes at the Acadêmie Julian. In a letter dated January 1887, around the same time he created Along the Seine, Winter, Hassam concluded "I have unquestionable arrived at my selection of subjects." This same year, he received positive reviews for a large painting of carriages queued at a cab station shown at the annual Salon.
The influence of French Impressionism is apparent in both his selection of subject and technique. In this and other works from the late 1880s, Hassam focused on Parisian daily life and atmospheric effects. The dark forms of a horse and buggy are surrounded by the nearly monochromatic environment of gray-brown sky, river, wall, and roadway. Brushstrokes remain visible, and the thick paint application along the lower edge enhances the suggestion of piled snow.
Excerpt from
Emily Schiller, DMA label text
Fun Facts
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Web Resources
Notes
Created in 1887
Object file reviewed
Exhibitions:
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, New York. "Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A.," 1929 (3/9-4/8), no. 86 (lent by Joel T. Howard);
Macbeth Gallery, New York. "Exhibitions of Paintings by Childe Hassam, N.A., Covering the Period from 1888 to 1919, Together with Etchings, Water Colors and Pastels," April 1929,
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas. "The Joel T. and Kathryn Howard Collection of American Painting," February 3-24, 1952, no. 16.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. "Behind the Scenes, Conservation Studio," September 15, 2013-November 2, 2014.
5/2014--Sue Canterbury
In an exchange with Kathleen Burnside, the author of the Hassam catalogue raisonne (aftersupplying her with a more color-accurate image of the work), she is quite certain that our work is the one that was in the American Art Association sale of 1896 by the title, Along the Seine, Evening. She wrote: "I know of no other work that fits as accurately and it is an unusual subject. It does seem to be very much of an evening scene with your photo."
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Hassam, Childe (American, 1859-1935)
Cultures
Geography
Depicted location: Seine River (France): TGN: 7009707
Depicted location place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
Process/materials
Oil on wood
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
n.d. Cameron Turner, Beverly, Massachusetts
From 1951: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, bequest of Joel T. Howard [1]
[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1983.
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