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The Bathers
190448 3/16 x 148 1/4 in. (122.4 x 376.6 cm)
Childe Hassam
United States (Boston, MA, 1859 - 1935, East Hampton, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Phipps
Accession Number:
1963.27
Location: Currently on view
This painting hung originally in the home of C.E.S. Wood, a Portland, Oregon lawyer, writer and art collector.
Murals were a common feature of turn-of-the-20th-century interiors, as they complemented the unified design popularized by artists and designers like William Morris and Gustav Stickley.
Monumental buildings like the Boston Public Library as well as cozy residential bungalows were decorated by artists who covered blank walls with colorful, imaginative, and romantic scenes like The Bathers.
MAG’s painting by Impressionist painter Childe Hassam was installed as part of a larger mural in the library/studio of the Portland, Oregon, home of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. A lawyer, writer, connoisseur, and friend of Hassam, Wood was influenced by the late 19th century Arts & Crafts aesthetic that disdained the ornate and cluttered surroundings of the Victorian period and aspired to simplicity and harmonious design. Wood wrote to his friend, the artist J. Alden Weir, that Hassam “whirled in and painted me a whole wall for my studio, and they tell me it is beautiful.”
[Gallery label text, 2008]
Murals were a common feature of turn-of-the-20th-century interiors, as they complemented the unified design popularized by artists and designers like William Morris and Gustav Stickley.
Monumental buildings like the Boston Public Library as well as cozy residential bungalows were decorated by artists who covered blank walls with colorful, imaginative, and romantic scenes like The Bathers.
MAG’s painting by Impressionist painter Childe Hassam was installed as part of a larger mural in the library/studio of the Portland, Oregon, home of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. A lawyer, writer, connoisseur, and friend of Hassam, Wood was influenced by the late 19th century Arts & Crafts aesthetic that disdained the ornate and cluttered surroundings of the Victorian period and aspired to simplicity and harmonious design. Wood wrote to his friend, the artist J. Alden Weir, that Hassam “whirled in and painted me a whole wall for my studio, and they tell me it is beautiful.”
[Gallery label text, 2008]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower left: Childe Hassam 1904
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Portland, OR; to his daughter, Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman; Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Phipps, New York; their gift to the Gallery in 1963
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Riches for Rochester: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection 9/22/1965 - 10/31/1965
- Harris K. Prior Memorial Exhibition 4/2/1976 - 5/2/1976
- Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/14/1977 - 5/28/1977
- Town and Country: In Pursuit of Life's Pleasures Nassau County Museum of Art 5/12/1996 - 8/11/1996
- Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West 12/11/2004 - 3/6/2005
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Article Title: A Gift to the Gallery. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 29, Issue Number: 4. Issue Date: March-April 1964. Page Number: 3, Figure Number: 3 (detail)
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1977.
- Memorial Art Gallery. Handbook Supplement : acquisitions, 1962-68. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1968.
- Article Author: Young, Mahonri Sharp. Article Title: Treasures from Rochester. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. ARTnews. New York, New York: ARTnews Associates Volume Number: 76, Issue Number: 5. Issue Date: May 1977. Page Number: 132, Figure Number: 132
- Docent Newsletter. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Harris K. Prior Memorial Exhibition . Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1976.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Irondequoit Press. Irondequoit, NY: Irondequoit Press
- Oregonian. Portland, OR: Oregonian
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Richard Wattenmaker. Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.
- Prudence F. Roberts. Shaping a Collection: C.E.S. Wood and Portland's Early Art Scene. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum
- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Margaret Bullock. Childe Hassam: Impressionist in the West. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 2004.
- H. Barbara Weinberg. Childe Hassam: American Impressionist. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Article Author: Bullock, Margaret. Article Title: Childe Hassam: The Bathers. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 143-145
- Article Scope: Mention. Robert Hamburger. Two Rooms: The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
- American Art. New York, NY: Bonham's, Nov 18, 2021.
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Web Links
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Childe Hassam's The Bathers, written by Margaret Bullock.