The Breakfast Room, Winter Morning, New York
Artist
Childe Hassam
(American, 1859–1935)
Date1911
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 63.8 × 76.5 cm (25 1/8 × 30 1/8 in.)
framed (no buildout): 91.4 × 104.8 × 5.7 cm (36 × 41 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
framed (no buildout): 91.4 × 104.8 × 5.7 cm (36 × 41 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1911.29
Label TextThe ideal modern, introspective woman was a popular subject for artists in twentieth-century America. In 1910, Hassam began his "New York Window" series, a group of paintings depicting contemplative women seated before curtained windows. In The Breakfast Room, the faceless subject is one of several elements—the window’s seemingly mundane silhouette, the flower vase, and fruit bowl—that the artist used to balance his asymmetrical composition. Hassam differentiates the visual effects of light on various textures in the sheer curtain, the gossamer fabric of the sitter's dress, the tabletop’s reflective surface, and the sparkling transparency of the glass vase.ProvenancePurchased from the artist by the Worcester Art Museum, 1911.On View
Not on view
