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Tribute Piece: The Avenue In The Rain by Childe Hassam
Location: Baker Funeral Home
411 S. Mulberry (Front Of Building)
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Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
"The Avenue In The Rain"
Hassam was the premier Impressionist painter of New York City. From 1890 through WW1 he painted it's fashionable boulevards, genteel park lanes, festive military parades, new neighborhoods, and occasionally the new skyline. He traveled to Paris in 1886, making many rural and urban plein-air (in the open air) paintings. this work shows the Impressionist technique of showing form and light. The impression of light on the object, atmosphere, and weather conditions are all part of the scene. In later years, Hassam preoccupied himself with patriotic, decorative paintings of wartime New York City. These paintings brought him great popularity and success. This Painting was a gift of T.M. Evans in 1963, and it hangs in the Oval office of the White House.
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