Columbus Avenue, Rainy Day
Artist
Childe Hassam
(American, 1859–1935)
Date1885
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 43.5 × 53.7 cm (17 1/8 × 21 1/8 in.)
framed: 65.4 × 74.9 × 7.9 cm (25 3/4 × 29 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
framed: 65.4 × 74.9 × 7.9 cm (25 3/4 × 29 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Charlotte E. W. Buffington
Object number1935.36
Label TextReflections glinting off carriage wheels and the rain-slickened pavement add vibrancy to this scene of a wet day along Boston’s busy Columbus Avenue. Influenced by his first visit to Paris two years earlier, Hassam brought the principles of modern French painting to his home city: a commitment to representing urban life and close attention to the ever-changing qualities of nature itself.Provenancebought from the artist by Charlotte E.W. Buffington, Worcester MA; bequeathed by Buffington to the Worcester Art Museum, 1935.On View
Not on view
