Childe Hassam
Appledore No. 21912
watercolor
14 1/16 x 19 15/16 in.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
The rocky ledges of Appledore Island fascinated Childe Hassam during the summers he spent on the island a few miles off the coast of New Hampshire. Hassam liked to escape to the island's rocky shores to paint nature in its wild state, unchanged by human intervention.
