Flower Market
Artist
Childe Hassam
(American, 1859 - 1935)
Date1895
MediumWatercolor, gouache, and pastel on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 19 1/8 × 13 7/16 inches (48.58 × 34.13 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number47-118
Signedl.l.corner: "Childe Hassam, 1895"
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DescriptionNine figures in front of white wall, with load of flowers in foreground. Sunlit white towers in distance.Gallery LabelAccomplished in watercolor, pastel and oil, Boston native Childe Hassam excelled in creating scenes of floral abundance. The artist's impressionistic, but still quite structured style lent itself well to depicting gardens and flower markets.
Hassam likely painted this scene of a flower market along a canal in Venice from memory, harkening back to his only trip there in 1883. An attractive scene of Venetian daily life, Flower Market relates to other watercolor illustrations of popular sites he contributed to a widely read 1891 guide. Flower Market, however, depicts a secluded area near the Church of Gesuati, which shines like a beacon in the background due to Hassam's effective use of the white paper to evoke bright but shifting daylight.
Hassam likely painted this scene of a flower market along a canal in Venice from memory, harkening back to his only trip there in 1883. An attractive scene of Venetian daily life, Flower Market relates to other watercolor illustrations of popular sites he contributed to a widely read 1891 guide. Flower Market, however, depicts a secluded area near the Church of Gesuati, which shines like a beacon in the background due to Hassam's effective use of the white paper to evoke bright but shifting daylight.
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