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Wayside Inn Oaks in Spring

Media - 1971.224 - SAAM-1971.224_1 - 45882

Copied Childe Hassam, Wayside Inn Oaks in Spring, 1926, etching on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1971.224

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Title: Wayside Inn Oaks in Spring
Artist: Childe Hassam
Date: 1926
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: plate: 10 ¹⁄₈ x 7 ⁷⁄₈ in. (25.7 x 20.0 cm)
Credit Line: Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Mediums Description: etching on paper
Classifications: Graphic Arts
Print
Keywords: Landscape — road
Landscape — Massachusetts — Sudbury
Landscape — season — spring
Object Number: 1971.224
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1971.224

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