The Sonata
Framed: 43 7/8 × 43 7/8 inches (111.44 × 111.44 cm)
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Exhibition of Works in the Various Mediums by Childe Hassam, Milch Galleries, November 17–December 6, 1919, no. 1 (as The Marshall Neil Rose).
Paintings by Childe Hassam, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 5–29, 1925, no cat. (as The Marshal Niel Rose).
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A., Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, N.Y., March 9–April 6, 1929, no. 97 (as Beethoven’s Sonata Appassionata).
Kansas City Collects, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., January 22–February 28, 1965, no. 27.
Nineteenth Century American Painting, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., February 17–March 31, 1974, no cat..
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 77.
Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, Denver Art Museum, April 4, 1990–January 7, 1991 (traveled), unnumbered.
Childe Hassam, Adelson Galleries, The Mark Hotel, New York, November 2–December 15, 1999; Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Tex., January 11–February 5, 2000, no. 46 (New York only).
The Golden Age of American Impressionism, The Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, November 22, 2003–February 1, 2004, unnumbered.
Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 10–September 12, 2004, unnumbered.
The Art of Music, The San Diego Museum of Art, September 26, 2015–February 7, 2016; Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, March 3–May 29, 2016, unnumbered.
A distinguished and unique work by Hassam, The Sonata indicates the painter's endorsement of a late-19th-century movement that proclaimed that art was not obliged to tell stories or to impart morals. Rather, art uplifted society by celebrating beauty.
To (Milch Galleries, New York, 1919);
to Duncan Phillips, Washington, D.C., 1921;
to (Alma Thayer, New York, 1928);
to Childe Hassam, New York, 1928;
to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, by bequest, 1935;
to (Milch Galleries, New York, 1936);
to Archer Huntington, Brookgreen, S.C., 1936;
to Gibbes Memorial Art Gallery, Carolina Art Association, Charleston, S.C., by gift, 1936;
to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1951);
to (Milch Galleries, New York, 1952);
to Joseph S. Atha, Shawnee Mission, Kans., 1952;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1952.
Royal Cortissoz, “The Personal Touch: The Part It Has Played in the Growth of Mr. Childe Hassam,” New York Tribune, November 23, 1919, sec. 4, 11.
Milch Galleries, Exhibition of Works in the Various Mediums by Childe Hassam, exh. cat. (New York: Milch Galleries, 1919), unpaginated (as The Marshall Neil Rose).
Sydney de Brie, “Modern American Paintings for the Home,” Country Life 39 (November 1920), 110, 112 (as The Maréchal Niel Rose).
Nathaniel Pousette-Dart, ed., Childe Hassam (New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company, 1922), unpaginated (as The
Marshall Niel Rose).
Leila Mechlin, “Notes of Art and Artists,” Washington Star, April 12, 1925, sec. 2, 4.
“In the Realm of Art and Music,” Washington Post, April 19, 1925, 17.
Duncan Phillips, A Collection in the Making (Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1926), 81 (as The Marshal Niel Rose).
Catalog of a Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A., exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1929), 17 (as Beethoven’s Sonata Appassionata).
“An Exhibition of Childe Hassam’s Paintings,” Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express, March 14, 1929, 9 (as Beethoven’s Sonato Appassionate).
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 256.
Kansas City
Collects, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William
Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1965),
unpaginated.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 252.
“Museum Receives American Impressionist Painting,” Calendar of Events (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), September 1987, 2.
“Dressed for Success,” Kansas City Star, October 18, 1987, 1D.
Charles Burke, “Nelson Boasts Fruits of Bountiful Decade,” Independence (Mo.) Examiner, November 13, 1987, 8.
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987. exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, 1987), 176–77.
David Park Curry, Childe Hassam: An Island Garden Revisited, exh. cat. (Denver: Denver Art Museum, in association with W. W. Norton and Company, 1990), 55, 57, 205.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 127–28; NAMA 1993a, 53, 228, 240 (as Sonata).
Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, American Impressionist (New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1994), 86, 89.
Warren Adelson, Jay E. Cantor, and William H. Gerdts, Childe Hassam: An American Impressionist, exh. cat. (New York: Adelson Galleries and Houston, TX: Meredith Long and Company, 1999), unpaginated (repro.).
Warren Adelson, Jay E. Cantor, and William H. Gerdts, Childe Hassam: An American Impressionist (New York: Abbeville Press, 1999), 189–191 (repro.), 229n131, 229n132.
William H. Gerdts, The Golden Age of American Impressionism, exh. cat. (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2003), 26–27, 72-73, 75 (repro.).
William H. Gerdts, “The Golden Age of American Impressionism,” American Art Review 15 (November–December 2003), 110, cover.
H. Barbara Weinberg, ed., Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2004), 126–29.
Susan Behrends Frank, American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape,
exh. cat. (New York: Rizzoli International, in association with The Phillips
Collection, 2007), 50, 55–56 (repro.), 184, 191n93.
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 19, 293-98 (repro.), 2: 124-125 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 170 (repro.).
Patrick Coleman, ed., The Art of Music, exh. cat. (San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2015, 172 (repro.).
Patrick Coleman, ed., El arte de la música, exh. cat. (Mexico City: Instituto Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, 2016), 172 (repro.).
