CHILDE HASSAM | Spring Woods (In the Orchard)

The artist
[With]Milch Galleries, New York
Horatio S. Rubens, New York (acquired from the above)
Estate of the above, 1941
Sold: Kende Galleries, New York, December 12-14, 1942, lot 22
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Rose K. Nirenberg, New York, 1977 (gift from the above)
Dr. Irving Schwartz, New York, 1983 (gift from the above)
[With]Altman Fine Arts, New York, 1987
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above)
[With]Adelson Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2002

East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall of East Hampton, Childe Hassam, July-August 1967, no. 35 (as Wooded Landscape), n.p.
New York, Altman Fine Arts, American Impressionists, November-December 1988, n.p., illustrated

The canvas is lined and there is frame abrasion along the extreme edges. The work may be slightly dirty. Under UV: although some pigments fluoresce, they appear to be the artist's original work.
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This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.