The Manhattan Club
Childe HASSAM
(American, 1859-1935)
The Manhattan Club
Dateca. 1891
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 18 1/4 x 22 1/8 in. (46.4 x 56.2 cm)
frame: 29 7/8 × 33 7/8 × 4 3/4 in. (75.9 × 86 × 12.1 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton to the Preston Morton Collection
Object number1960.62
Subject(s)
- landscape, city scenes
- buildings
- architecture
Collection
- 20th century American
- American
Sub-Collection(s)
- American Impressionism
- American
On View
Not on viewCollections
Label Text"I paint from cabs a good deal,” Hassam told an
art journalist, when interviewed for a piece that appeared in an issue of Art
Amateur in 1892. In so doing, Hassam was emulating the Parisian street
scene specialist, Jean Béraud, with whom he was often compared. Driving along
the fashionable neighborhoods of Fifth Avenue, Hassam captured on-the-spot the
elegant facades of the mansions and clubs, as well as the well-heeled New
Yorkers who patronized them. During the 1890s, Hassam was known as the painter
of New York street scenes such as this, culminating in his most famous
Impressionist Flag Series of 1916-1919, which commemorated the end of
World War I.
