Summer Evening
1886
19th Century
12 1/8 in. x 20 3/8 in.
Frederick Childe Hassam,
American,
(October 17, 1859–August 27, 1935)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum, Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Accession Number:
2002.1.71
Summer evening depicts a young woman seated by an open window tending her geranium plant as the last moments of an afternoon sun slip away. It was possibly painted on Appledore, in the Isle of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire where Hassam spent many summers.