Landscape: Trees in Bloom
Artist
Childe Hassam
(American, 1859–1935)
Date1885
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions30.5 x 35.6 cm (12 x 14 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Grenville H. Norcross
Object number1937.15
Label TextIn Landscape: Trees in Bloom, Hassam creates a traditional garden scene using mottled, swift brushstrokes. Flecks of pink and white apple blossoms dot the murky landscape, camouflaging the apple trees lined against the serpentine rock wall. The artist executed this landscape shortly before his travels to Paris (1886–89), where he discovered the vivid colors of French Impressionism. This painting represents one of Hassam’s early portrayals of the countryside, where later he along with other American Impressionists found respite from growing urbanization.ProvenanceGrenville H. Norcross, Boston MAOn View
Not on view
