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Bailey's Beach, Newport, R.I.
Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)LinkedCulture matchlcp-6824b199c1ad
- Date
- 1901
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 107862
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Childe Hassam, like other American Impressionists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recorded scenes of leisure and recreation, especially country vacation retreats. This painting portrays fashionable Bailey’s Beach in Newport, Rhode Island, an exclusive seaside town known at the time for its wealth and luxury. Hassam depicted sand dunes rising from behind the beach with the promenade and its costumed bathers at a distance, reinforcing the fact that he, and the viewer, are excluded from this privileged setting. The artist’s Impressionist strategies—including the use of scintillating colors, energetic brushwork, and a light palette—capture the vibrant atmosphere of this sunny resort.
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- Credit line
- Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- The artist, 1901. Macbeth Galleries, New York, by 1917. Sold to Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), Washington, DC, 1917. Sold to Knoedler Gallery, New York, February 18, 1929. To Milch Galleries, New York, by 1933. Sold to Paul Schulze, Chicago, 1936; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1936.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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