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Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme
190420th Century
25 x 30 in.
Frederick Childe Hassam, American, (October 17, 1859–August 27, 1935)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
oil on wood
Credit Line:
Gift of the Vincent Dowling Family Foundation in Honor of Director Emeritus Jeffrey Andersen
Accession Number:
2017.16
From Christie's Auction Cataloge:
Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme was painted in 1904 in the gardens of the home. The brushstrokes are vigorously applied with a familiarity that derives from his lengthy a ection for the motif of a blossoming fruit tree. The two apple trees in the composition are flanked by the Lieutenant River and the studio Hassam converted from a barn for his stays in Old Lyme. In a letter to J. Alden Weir, Hassam cheerfully wrote of his painting shed there, “You are all well I hope and of course you are enjoying that bully studio! You should see mine here, just the place for high thinking and low living.” (as quoted in Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, New York, 2004, p. 157)
Apple Trees in Bloom, Old Lyme was painted in 1904 in the gardens of the home. The brushstrokes are vigorously applied with a familiarity that derives from his lengthy a ection for the motif of a blossoming fruit tree. The two apple trees in the composition are flanked by the Lieutenant River and the studio Hassam converted from a barn for his stays in Old Lyme. In a letter to J. Alden Weir, Hassam cheerfully wrote of his painting shed there, “You are all well I hope and of course you are enjoying that bully studio! You should see mine here, just the place for high thinking and low living.” (as quoted in Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, New York, 2004, p. 157)
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