New Hampshire Lighthouse, White Island
Artist
Childe Hassam
(American, 1859 - 1935)
Date1886
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsUnframed: 19 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (49.53 × 34.29 cm)
Framed: 28 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (71.76 × 56.2 cm)
Framed: 28 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (71.76 × 56.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. C. Humbert Tinsman Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. James E. C. Tinsman in memory of C. Humbert and Julia Tinsman
Object number2002.12.3
SignedSigned lower right on recto
On View
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DescriptionThis vertically oriented watercolor features a prominent lighthouse jutting out from a rocky outcropping. It is silhouetted against a pale blue sky.Gallery LabelChilde Hassam derived his favorite subjects from the New Hampshire coastline and its islands, which appear in hundreds of luminous impressionistic oil paintings. In New Hampshire Lighthouse, he extends his interest in depicting light to watercolor. Here, however, Hassam achieves luminosity by allowing the white of the paper to glow from beneath broad, transparent passages of color rather than by applying the assertive, broken brush marks he favored in oil.
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