Poppies on the Isles of Shoals
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Object Label
Throughout his career, Frederick Childe Hassam made several extended trips to Europe, where he was inspired by the sights and the many artists he met there. A Back Road, completed the year after his first European tour, demonstrates a compositional daring and freedom of brushwork that were still unusual in American art of this period. Influenced by the work of the nineteenth-century French Barbizon School, Hassam emphasized heavy brushstrokes and intense lighting effects.
During a return visit several years later, Hassam found “a charming old French garden” at Villiers-le-Bel, near Paris. The setting reminded him of Appledore Island off the coast of Maine, home to his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. Poppies on the Isles of Shoals is one of a number of works painted on Appledore in the years immediately following his Paris sojourn.
Caption
Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890. Oil on canvas, frame: 25 3/4 x 29 5/8 x 4 in. (65.4 x 75.2 x 10.2 cm) 18 x 21 15/16 in. (45.7 x 55.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mary Pratt Barringer and Richardson Pratt, Jr. in memory of Richardson and Laura Pratt, 85.286. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Collection
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Collection
Artist
Title
Poppies on the Isles of Shoals
Date
1890
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
frame: 25 3/4 x 29 5/8 x 4 in. (65.4 x 75.2 x 10.2 cm) 18 x 21 15/16 in. (45.7 x 55.7 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "Childe Hassam 1890"
Credit Line
Gift of Mary Pratt Barringer and Richardson Pratt, Jr. in memory of Richardson and Laura Pratt
Accession Number
85.286
Rights
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