Collection
/
American Art

The Gorge, Appledore

Frederick Childe Hassam

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

The broad, liquid strokes and vivid transparency of color in this image demonstrate the success with which Childe Hassam transposed his Impressionist style into the medium of watercolor. In 1912, in his full maturity as an artist, he painted a series of watercolors at his favorite coastal setting of Appledore (one of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire). In these works his compositions are spare, reduced to a few dramatic elements, and his application of washes is intuitive and liberated.

Caption

Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). The Gorge, Appledore, 1912. Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13 13/16 x 19 7/8 in. (35.1 x 50.5 cm) frame: 23 7/8 x 29 15/16 x 1 15/16 in. (60.6 x 76 x 4.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 24.103. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

The Gorge, Appledore

Date

1912

Medium

Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper

Classification

Watercolor

Dimensions

13 13/16 x 19 7/8 in. (35.1 x 50.5 cm) frame: 23 7/8 x 29 15/16 x 1 15/16 in. (60.6 x 76 x 4.9 cm)

Signatures

Signed and dated left center: "Childe Hassam / 1912"

Credit Line

Museum Collection Fund

Accession Number

24.103

Have information?

Have information about an artwork? Contact us at

bkmcollections@brooklynmuseum.org.

Artists and makers

Frederick Childe Hassam

23 works in the collection