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CHILDE HASSAM Mrs. Hassam Knitting.
Lithograph on smooth, cream wove paper, 1918. 320x223 mm; 12 5/8x8 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of only approximately 6. A very good impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
Hassam (1859-1935) was born near Boston and apprenticed at a local wood engraver's studio after he finished high school. His exposure to French Impressionism during travels to Paris in 1883 and 1885-88 had dramatic effects on his future style as an artist. When he returned in the mid-1880s and settled with his wife in New York, he embarked on a long, successful career as one of America's foremost Impressionist painters.
His was already well known as a painter before he seriously began making prints, both lithographs and etchings, in the mid-1910s (he had earlier produced a handful of etchings), influenced by Julian Alden Weir, his neighbor in Cos Cob (where the Hassams spent their summers).
Many of Hassam's broadly-drawn, sketch-like etchings and lithographs of New England houses and landscapes, coastal scenes and quiet interiors, with their attention to reflections and shimmering light, owe a great deal to Whistler's aesthetic. Griffith 60.
