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Summary
Childe Hassam
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The Avenue in the Rain
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| Title |
The Avenue in the Rain
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| Object type |
painting
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| Genre |
cityscape
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| Description |
English:
"The Avenue in the Rain," oil on canvas, by the American painter Childe Hassam. 42 in. x 22.25 in. Courtesy of The White House Collection, The White House, Washington, D. C. Image courtesy of The Athenaeum.
Notes from Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008 "The Avenue in the Rain . . . is one of some 30 related paintings of flag-decorated streets that the artist [Childe Hassam] produced between 1916 and 1919, during and immediately after the First World War. . . . [T]hey are intensely patriotic works . . . . ". . . The avenue is Fifth Avenue, frequently decorated with American flags as American sentiment moved . . . from isolationism toward intervention. The artist's most striking device here is the projection of flags into the picture from points of unseen anchor beyond the frame . . . . In one sense the flags become the surface of the painting . . . . "Observing shadows to be bluish rather than black, the Impressionists often became mannered in their use of blue, making it a dominant hue in many of their paintings. . . . [H]ere the rain and the rain-slicked streets give [Hassam] an excuse for a literal wash of blue and blue-gray, enhanced by a profusion of reflections." |
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| Date | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil
on
canvas
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| Dimensions |
width: 56.5 cm (22.2 in)
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| Collection |
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| Accession number |
190
(
White House
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| Place of creation |
United States of America
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| Source/Photographer |
The Athenaeum
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http://www.whitehouseresearch.org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset?id=14 |
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Licensing
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The author died in 1935, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929. |
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This file is a work of an employee of the
Executive Office of the President of the United States
, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a
work
of the
U.S. federal government
, it is in the
public domain
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