Rain Drops and Surf, 1921

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.43 × 15.24 cm (8 7/16 × 6 in.)

sheet: 32.86 × 24.77 cm (12 15/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)

Catalogue Raisonné

Cortissoz and Clayton 1989, no. 170

Accession Number

2015.19.465

Artists / Makers

Childe Hassam (artist) American, 1859 - 1935

Peter J. Platt (printer) American, 1859 - 1934

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Easthampton / June / [the artist's monogram] / 1921; lower right in graphite: [the artist's monogram] imp; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Raindrops Surf 2nd st.; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: 1126HA 17477 [crossed out]; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: RAINDROPS, SURF; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #30 - "Raindrops, Surf"

Provenance

the artist, New York; Mrs. Childe Hassam, New York, 1935; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Hassam, Childe

Exhibition History

1940: Etchings by Childe Hassam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1940

Bibliography

1989: Cortissoz, Royal, and the Leonard Clayton Gallery. Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam, N.A.. San Francisco, California: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, pp. 113, 115, no. 170.