With an Original Etching Signed
The Etchings and Dry-Points of Childe Hassam
The Fine Limited Edition Issued in 1925
[Hassam, Childe] Cortissoz, Royal. The ETCHINGS AND DRY-POINTS OF CHILDE HASSAM, N.A. of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With an Introduction by Royal Cortissoz (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925) LIMITED Edition, one of 375 hand-numbered copies of a total print run of 400. With an original etching, "Cos Cob", SIGNED by Hassam in pencil with his cypher and printed by Peter Platt as frontispiece, also with extensive large or full-page black and white illustrations throughout illustrating many of the works in the catalogue 4to, publisher's original blue paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, the upper cover lettered and decorated in black, the spine lettered in gilt. xiv, 96pp. A very fine copy, internally as pristine, the blue paper of the boards with just the lightest rubbing at the tips. A very handsome copy, beautifully preserved.
SCARCE, one of only 400 copies printed. WITH AN ORIGINAL ENGRAVING SIGNED WITH HASSAM'S UNIQUE CYPHER IN PENCIL.
Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and the museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs in his career, and was a founding member of The Ten, an influential group of American artists of the early 20th century.
This catalogue features 238 of the artist etchings and dry-points. Each is briefly described and many are illustrated with fine black and white reproductions. There is also an introduction by Royal Cortissoz, American art historian and long-time art critic for the New York Herald Tribune. Hiesinger, Ulrich W.; Weinberg, H. Barbara. |
