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Canterbury Cathedral (recto)

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Date

1889

Artist

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Collection

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Image Link

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1938.65.a

Description

Late in 1886, Hassam and his wife departed his native Boston for France, spending the next three years abroad. His work of this period reflected his burgeoning interest in French Impressionism; he increasingly used broken brushstrokes and a lighter palette. Rather than being labeled an American Impressionist, however, Hassam preferred to identify himself as a painter of "light and air." An early morning rosy sky illuminates this distant view of Canterbury Cathedral, one of several watercolors of the English city.
Inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Childe Hassam. canterbury 1889.
Medium: watercolor with gouache and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
Accesion Number: 1938.65.a

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Location

Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England

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