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Painting
The Bathers
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
48 3/16 x 148 1/4 in. (122.4 x 376.6 cm)
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without frame
Oil
Oil
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, nudes, paintings, seascapes, women
Painting
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]
lower leftverso, original stretcher
1963.27
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