id: 117912
accession number: 1938.65.a
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.65.a
updated: 2023-01-10 20:58:38.982000
Canterbury Cathedral (recto), 1889. Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Watercolor with gouache and graphite; sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection 1938.65.a
title: Canterbury Cathedral (recto)
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creation date: 1889
creation date earliest: 1889
creation date latest: 1889
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creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
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culture: America, 19th century
technique: watercolor with gouache and graphite
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American 19th Century
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
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description: beige(1) wove paper
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inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Childe Hassam. canterbury 1889.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection
opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00
American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
title: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century
opening date: 2004-08-15T00:00:00
Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98. "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/15/04-11/14/04. "Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century". No exhibition catalogue.
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PROVENANCE
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Late in 1886, Hassam and his wife departed his native Boston for France, spending the next three years abroad. His work of this period reflected his burgeoning interest in French Impressionism; he increasingly used broken brushstrokes and a lighter palette. Rather than being labeled an American Impressionist, however, Hassam preferred to identify himself as a painter of "light and air." An early morning rosy sky illuminates this distant view of Canterbury Cathedral, one of several watercolors of the English city.
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