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Vs , - rv' } , ;,vv.:l >;, .,£\ h T *»’■ *• , > ' .L k ‘ i /V'" v pt5 h V ?•/* r *• a • < 1 . . < .. w . .ml .vv •*,# i i ,, . / ‘My MMMfM .-inn ' -< ■ ■'■ '■ uvV v’a- ' '< •. • . , • • , . - . w. r .• t v V» , - 4Vri \ f}<> •-*♦' % ^ Sj CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF Etchings and Drawings BY C H I LDE HA S SA M FREDERICK KEPPEL & CO. 4 EAST 39th STREET NEW YORK NOVEMBER 16th TO DECEMBER 2nd 1916 ' — ■ Mullin' if iT«i — A PREFATORY NOTE ON THE DRAWINGS T is a pleasure for me to accede to Mr. Keppel’s request that I write a prefatory note for this catalogue of recent water-colors and pastels by Childe Hassam— an artist pos- sessed of a rare and distinguished talent. Mr. Hassam is never more happy in his results than when working in water-color: the medium is thoroughly congenial to him. The artist has not done anything finer than the Isles of Shoals series, which were painted three or four years ago and shown last win- ter. These drawings are splendid interpreta- tions of nature and disclose a very sensitive vision. They are possessed of much style and show a strong decorative feeling, besides displaying the artist’s love of radiant and vi- brating color, which is invariably handled with much tact and discretion. Technically, they are lessons in what water-colors should be, with their broad and vigorous washes, in which simplification and elimination have played a great part. They are drawn as Sar- gent employs this medium, and as Whistler did before him. The water-colors in the present exhibition are for the greater part more in the nature of 3 studies and sketches, but they are very de- lightful and display in an adequate manner the artist’s gift of being able to make rapid color notes full of beauty and style. Regard with what mastery the little marine showing the long wake of a boat has been drawn, how limpid the water is and how delicious the color. All these drawings possess a very personal impress, an autographic quality which marks them as being unmistakably from Mr. Hassam’s brush. They are very spontaneous and joyous, for always, as I wrote ten years ago in the course of a study of Mr. Hassam’s work, on the occasion of a representative exhibition of his paintings and water-colors, is his vision fresh and virile. A. E. Gallatin. 4 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 io ii 12 i 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ETCHINGS Old Warehouses, Portsmouth The Chimneys, Portsmouth Street in Newburgh Sunset, Constable’s Hook Rainy Day, St. Mark’s The Dance Kitty Resting Moonrise at Sunset Reading in Bed The Little Piano A Portrait Cos Cob The Old Toll Bridge Palmer’s Dock, Cos Cob Long Ridge Elms in May Cos Cob Dock Old Lace Toby’s, Cos Cob The Old House, Cos Cob The Writing Desk The Steps The White Mantel The White Kimono The Dutch Door The Bird Book Young Pan Piping Calvary Church in Snow The Church across the Way Church Doorway, Snow 5 31 Battery Park 32 Washington’s Birthday (Fifth Avenue and 23d Street) 33 The Dressing Table 34 Swimmer— Morning 35 Swimmer — Evening 36 The Auto School 37 Fifth Avenue, Noon 38 Nocturne, Cos Cob 39 Rue de Nevers, Paris 40 Zola’s House, Avenue Trudaine, Paris 41 Montmartre 42 The Billboards, New York 43 Old Shops, New York 44 The Linden Tree 45 Fresco 46 Toledo 47 Old Chinatown, San Francisco 48 The Far Horizon 49 Diana’s Pool, Appledore 50 The High Pool 51 Madonna of the North End 52 Portsmouth Doorway 53 Fire Dance 54 Newport Harbor 55 Newfields, N. H. 56 Halcyon Hill 57 The Surf 58 Portrait of Albert Roullier 58a Stock Broker’s Office, Wall Street 58b The Almond Tree 6 DRAWINGS 59 The Church across the Way Pencil 60 The Organ Grinder Crayon 61 Long Ridge Pencil and Pastel 62 Chimneys, Portsmouth Pencil 63 Fifth Avenue, Noon Pencil 64 Elms in May Pencil 65 Church Doorway, Snow Pencil and Crayon 66 Swimmer, Morning Pencil 67 Malheur Lake Pencil and Crayon 68 Malheur Desert Water Color 69 Malheur Desert Water Color 70 Squaw’s Cap, Haney Desert Water Color 7i Chestnuts, Old Lyme Water Color 72 Snowin Connecticut Hills Pen and Water Color 73 Appledore Pastel 74 Appledore Pastel 75 Figure Study PencilandPigment 76 Figure Study Crayon and Chinese White 77 14 Juilliet, Montmartre Water Color 78 Perros Guirec Water Color 79 Brittany Barns, Perros Guirec Water Color 80 Outer Gate, Toledo Water Color 81 Portal, Toledo Crayon and Wash 82 Seville Water Color 83 Toledo Water Color 7 Pencil and Crayon 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 The Steps, Cos Cob Madonna of the North End, Boston Malcolm Street, Boston Acorn Street, Boston Old House, Newburgh Coytesville On the Palisades Water Color Water Color Water Color Water Color Water Color Water Color THE DE VINNE PRESS NEW YORK V/-S3/7-7C