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Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery newsletter, July 2022 |
New from Linda Sorensen |
![]() Childe Hassam, a distinctively American Impressionst you'll want to know |
Leon Lundmark, 1875-1942 |
Childe Hassam, a distinctively American Impressionist you'll want to know by Daniel Rohlfing |
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![]() Childe Hassam, Boston Common at Twilight,1885-86, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was one of America's best Impressionists of the late 19tth and early 20th centuries. Along with Mary Cassatt, Henry Twachtman, Theodore Robinson, and J. Alden Weir, Childe Hassam was instrumental in popularizing impressionism among American collectors, art dealers and museums. |
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This is an hour-long video slide show showing 645 of his paintings. I recommend that you view this video on YouTube on a large TV screen. By sampling portions of it, you can gain an appreciation for the range, skill and artistry of Childe Hassam. |
His first name "Childe" is pronounced like the common noun "child." The name had belonged to one of his uncles. He was born in Boston on October 17, 1859, and was christened Frederick Childe Hassam. Childe discarded his first name "Frederick" early in his painting career. |
![]() Childe Hassam, The Avenue in the Rain, 1917 The White House Collection |
![]() President Barrack Obama at his White House desk next to Childe Hassam's Avenue in the Rain which graced his office for 8 years..s. |
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![]() Claude Monet, Rue Montorgueil with Flags, 1886, Private Collection The inspiration for Childe Hassam's homage to Monet, his flag paintings. |
![]() Childe Hassam, Flags on the Waldorf, 1916, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX |
![]() Childe Hassam, July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, Paris 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
![]() Childe Hassam, Rainy Day, Boston, 1885, Toledo Museum of Art |
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In Childe's early artistic life, he sought to make his name more distinctive. He dropped his first name Frederick and became Childe Hassam. Physically he was athletic, and he possessed a dark complexion with dark heavy eyebrows. |
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![]() Childe Hassam, Late Afternoon, Winter, New York c1900, Brooklyn Museum |
![]() Childe Hassam, Spring on West 78th Street, NYC, 1905, Private Collection, on loan to the Seattle Art Museum |
![]() Childe Hassam, Madison Square, NYC, c1890 |
At age 23, he had risen in the commercial art business and became a free-lance "black and white" man. He was known for illustrating children's stories for Harper's Weekly, Scribners Monthly and The Century. |
It was at this time that Childe began painting cityscapes, including his Boston Common at Twilight which hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Childe and his impressionist friends took to heart all that they had learned of Impressionism from the French, but they applied it in American cities and landscapes. Monet even encouraged them that they had a new story to tell. |
![]() Childe Hassam, Street Scene, Christmas Morning, The model is thought to be his wife, Kathleen. Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA |
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In the Fall of 1887, Childe's signature style was born. He painted two versions of Grand Prix Day where he used a more French Impressionist palette, a lighter palette, using softer and more diffuse colors. |
![]() Childe Hassam, New York Winter Window, 1919 |
![]() Childe Hassam, The Victorian Chair, 1906, Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Childe became friends with other American impressionists J. Alden Weir and John Henry Twachtman. Through them, he met other artists in a range of art societies and social clubs. He painted genteel scenes of New York within walking distance from his studio. He said, "New York is the most beautiful city in the world. There is no boulevard in all Paris that compares to our own Fifth Avenue ... the average American still fails to appreciate the beauty of his own country." Some might say his figures appear blurry, but Childe said he wanted to capture "humanity in motion." Today, these New York scenes are treasured by New Yorkers. |
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![]() Childe Hassam, The Goldfish Window, 1916 Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire |
![]() Childe Hassam, Summer Evening, 1886, Florence Griswald Museum, Old Lyme, CT |
In the summers, Childe felt the need to escape the heat and humidity of the city. He often stayed on Appledore Island, the largest of the Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire. The island was an artist colony and provided a social life including a salon hosted by poet Celia Thaxter who drew in a community of artists, poets and writers. She also attracted buyers for the paintings of these artists. Childe thoroughly enjoyed the company and creativity these summer visits offered. He created many of his best impressionist paintings on Appledore Island. |
![]() Childe Hassam, Moonlight, Isle of Shoals, 2017 Private Collection |
![]() Childe Hassam, The Water Garden, 1909, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
![]() Childe Hassam, Church at Old Lyme, CT, 1905, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
![]() Childe Hassam, Old House, East Hampton, NY |
Back home, Childe took part in the secession of Impressionists from the Society of American Artists, forming a new group called The Ten (pictured below). The ten had grown tired of the conservatism of the American Art establishment. The group held their own exhibitions and exhibited only through select galleries. They had success for about twenty years before dissolving. |
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But as with all art movements, the old gives way to the new. The impressionists and their paintings of a gentrified American scene were replaced with more lively and gritty urban scenes of the Ashcan School, with painters like Robert Henri and Edward Hopper. Movements in Modern Art also eroded Impressionism's appeal with the popular rise of the cubism of Picasso and the art of Maine's Marsden Hartley. |
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![]() Photo of Childe Hassam posed standing by a fireplace, date and location unknown. |
![]() This photo of "The Ten" shows the members who had gathered in Washington D.C. on New Year's Day, 1908. Back in 1897, Hassam joined these notable artists who left their association with other American Impressionists to form a new limited society known as "The Ten." Seated, left to right: Edward Simmons, Willard L. Metcalf, Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Robert Reid. Standing left to right: William Merritt Chase, Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Joseph DeCamp |
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Swedish-American Maritime Painter Leon Lundmark by Daniel Rohlfing |
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![]() Leon Lundmark, Joy of the Pacific, 29 x 36, oil on canvas, offered for sale by Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery . com |
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Leon Lundmark did not arrive in California until after his 60th birthday, but during his few years as a California painter, he did some of his best work. |
Before coming to California, Leon traveled extensively, painting maritime scenes of all the world's oceans, seas and all five of America's Great Lakes. His paintings were exhibited widely, in 61 American cities and 12 European and Asian countries. He exhibited his works at the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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![]() Leon Lundmark, The Open Sea, 38 1/2 x 50 5/8, Krannert Art Museum, The University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
Leon was born in Mörlunda, Sweden, just a little over 200 miles southwest of Stockholm, on May 28, 1875. He was the illegitimate son of Countess Hanna von Til and S. A. Johnson, and was educated in Stockholm at the Technical School and at the Stockholm Fine Art Academy. |
![]() photo of Leon Lundmark posed with his artist palette, taken from a posthumous Leon Lundmark exhibition pamphlet dated 1944. |
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It was at these exhibitions that he was discovered by Mr. J. W. Young of the Young Art Gallery on Michigan Avenue. Over the next three years, the Young gallery sold 95 of Leon Lundmark's paintings, and a biography of Leon Lundmark was published in 1924, The Rise of Lundmark, Marine Painter. |
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Bodega Bay's Jean Warren Watercolors Bodega Bay resident Jean Warren says her paintings are reflections of the places she has lived and traveled. Jean is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, California Watercolor Association and full member of Society of Layerists in Multi-Media. http://www.JeanWarren.com / 707-875-9240 |
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What's nearby? in Sonoma, Napa & Marin Counties |
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IN SEBASTOPOL - Sebastopol Center for the Arts ... see website for on-line activities home of Sonoma County's Art @ the Source and Art Trails 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 707.829.4797 Hours when able to reopen: Tue - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat & Sun 1 - 4pm |
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IN SANTA ROSA Corrick's Art Trails Gallery | http://www.corricks.com/arttrailsgallery 637 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | Contact:: http://www.corricks.com/contact-us Corrick's has been a Santa Rosa Treasure since 1915, a downtown stationery store serving the community's "cultural hub." Corrick's has long supported local artists with its impressive "ART TRAILS GALLERY," including paintings by Linda Sorensen. Corricks offers a number of originals by famed Santa Rosa artist, Maurice Lapp ... (see our August 2017 article) located on Fourth Street, steps away from Santa Rosa's revitalized town square and Fourth Street's Russian River Brewery |
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IN SANTA ROSA- Calabi Gallery | http://www.calabigallery.com We are located at 456 Tenth Street in Santa Rosa. Contact us with any questions at (707) 781-7070 or info@calabigallery.com 456 Tenth Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | email: info@calabigallery.com | 707-781-7070 Famed master conservator Dennis Calabi brings his rare knowledge and experience to present a tasteful and eclectic array of primarily 20th century artwork. http://www.calabigallery.com | Back to the Top |
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IN Santa Rosa - The Annex Galleries specializing in 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European fine prints The Annex Galleries is a member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA). http://www.AnnexGalleries.com | Back to the Top |
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IN GRATON - Graton Gallery |
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IN DUNCANS MILLS - Christopher Queen Galleries 3 miles east of Hwy 1 on Hwy 116 on the Russian River http://www.christopherqueengallery.com |707-865-1318| Back to the Top |
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IN Healdsburg - Paul Mahder Gallery http://www.paulmahdergallery.com (707) 473-9150 | Info@paulmahdergallery.com 222 Mill Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | check for hours |
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Links to current museum exhibits relevant to Early California Art | |||
The Greater Bay Area | |||
The Walt Disney Family Museum -- see website for details This museum tells Walt's story from the early days. (on the Parade Grounds) 104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA 94129 -- view location on Google Maps -- |
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San Francisco ... see website de Young Museum Permanent Collection |
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San Francisco closed, see website California Historical Society |
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San Francisco Legion of Honor ... see website -Permanent European and Impressionist Paintings |
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San Francisco open, see website for details Contemporary Jewish Museum |
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Oakland ... see website Oakland Museum of California -- ongoing Gallery of California Art -showcasing over 800 works from the OMCA's collection |
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San Francisco |
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Santa Rosa |
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Santa Rosa ... see website Charles M. Schultz Museum |
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Moraga |
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Sonoma Mission San Francisco de Solano Museum featuring the famed watercolor paintings of the California Missions by Christian Jorgensen |
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Sonoma Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ... see website 551 Broadway, Sonoma CA (707) 939-7862 |
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Ukiah Grace Hudson Museum ... see website http://www.gracehudsonmuseum.org |
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Bolinas |
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Walnut Creek ... see website The Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts |
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San Jose San Jose Museum of Art ... see website approximately 2,000 20th & 21st century artworks including paintings, sculpture, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books. |
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Monterey Monterey Museum of Art ... see website Ongoing exhibitions ... Museums Permanent Collection including William Ritschel, Armin Hansen and E. Charlton Fortune http://www.montereyart.org |
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Palo Alto ... see website Cantor Art Center at Stanford University |
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Monterey |
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Sacramento Crocker Art Museum Open Thurs - Sun, 10-5, masks, ... see websites |
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Sacramento Capitol Museum ... see website Governor's Portrait Gallery Permanent Exhibits (including one of our galllery's favorite artists, Robert Rishell's portrait of Gov. Ronald Reagan |
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Stockton's Treasure! The Haggin Museum ... see website -Largest exhibition of Albert Beirstadt paintings anywhere, plus the works of Joseph Christian Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell's mentor. see our Newsletter article, April 2011 |
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Southern California (and Arizona) (for all museums below, see website for hours and protocols. | |||
Los Angeles Los Angeles Museum of Art Art of the Americas, Level 3: Artworks of paintings and sculptures from the colonial period to World War II— a survey of of art and culture & "Levitated Mass" |
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Irvine UCI IMCA (University of California, Irvine Institute and Museum of California Art) (formerly The Irvine Museum) The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image and Sound in California Painting ... through Feb 19, 2022 |
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Santa Barbara The Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
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Orange Our Golden State: Landscape Paintings from the Hilbert Collection November 9 - April 18, 2022 Hilbert Museum, Chapman University |
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Pasaden Norton Simon Museum -an Impressive Permanent collection, European impressionist and post impressionist paintings See our newsletter from March 2014 |
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San Marino (near Pasadena) The Huntington Library American Art Collection Paintings by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Robert Henri, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, William Keith, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton and many more. |
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San Diego San Diego Museum of Art Permanent Collection |
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Palm Springs |
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Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Art Museum an excellent sampling of Artists of the American West |
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Los Angeles California African American Art Museum adjacent to the LA Coliseum (see our newsletter articleof their Ernie Barne's Exhibition September 2019) |
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& Beyond | |||
Honolulu, HI Honolulu Museum (see our Newsletter article from February, 2015) |
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Kamuela, HI (Big Island) Issacs Art Center 65-1268 Kawaihae Road Kamuela, HI 96743 (See our Dec '16 article "Hawaii's Paul Gauguin," modernist Madge Tennent, 1889-1972) |
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Seattle, WA Seattle Art Museum ( see our article Mar 2018 French and American Paintings ) |
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Portland, OR Portland Art Museum Permanent Collection: American Art |
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Washington D.C. The Renwick Gallery Permanent ... Grand Salon Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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Chicago, IL Art Institute of Chicago Permanent collection: the Impressionists |
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Cedar Rapids, IA The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Grant Wood: In Focus is an ongoing permanent collection exhibition. |
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Bentonville, AR |
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Washington D.C. The National Gallery Permanent collection American Paintings |
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Philadelphia , PA The Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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Philadelphia , PA Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Campus |
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Brooklyn, NY The Brooklyn Museum American Art Permanent Collection |
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New York , NY The Whitney Museum of American Art The largest selection of works by Edward Hopper |
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New York , NY Metropolitan Museum of Art Its extensive collection of American Art |
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Detroit, MI Detroit Institute of Arts American Art Permanent Collection |
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Ottawa, Ontario National Gallery of Canada |
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Denver, CO Denver Art Museum |
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