Spring, Navesink Highlands

Childe Hassam, Spring, Navesink Highlands, 1908, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1909.7.27
Childe Hassam, Spring, Navesink Highlands, 1908, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 1⁄8 in. (63.6 x 76.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1909.7.27
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Artwork Details

Title
Spring, Navesink Highlands
Artist
Date
1908
Location
Dimensions
25 x 30 1⁄8 in. (63.6 x 76.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of William T. Evans
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — forest
  • Landscape — river — Navesink River
  • Landscape — New Jersey — Navesink
  • Landscape — season — spring
Object Number
1909.7.27
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1909.7.27

Artwork Description

Childe Hassam lived in New York, but he also spent a good deal of time away from the chaos of urban life, painting landscapes and quaint villages in New England. (Pyne, Art and the Higher Life, 1999) In this painting of New Jersey's Navesink Highlands, he used quick brushstrokes to capture the effect of a cool spring breeze in the flickering leaves and ripples on the water. After he had chosen a frame for the piece he wrote to his patron William T. Evans that "I am glad to say it looks as fine as anything anywhere in the world."

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