CHILDE HASSAM (American, 1859-1935). East Gloucester, 1899. Watercolor and ink on paper mounted on board. 6 x 4 inches (...

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CHILDE HASSAM (American, 1859-1935)
East Gloucester, 1899
Watercolor and ink on paper mounted on board
6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Inscribed upper right: To Miss Derby
Signed and dated lower right: Childe Hassam / East Gloucester / July 6, 1899

PROVENANCE:
Caroline Abbott Derby (1873-circa 1940);
Private collection, Westport, Connecticut.

This lot includes a note by composer William Mason (1829-1908); a letter from American artist John Appleton Brown (1844-1902); a hand-written letter from the Lord Bishop of Frederickton, Nova Scotia, to Ms. Derby; a hand-written letter from Childe Hassam to Ms. Derby; a letter and a sketch by Edward Askew Sothern (1826-1881); a 6 x 4 inch watercolor, East Gloucester, 1899, by Walter Lofthouse Dean (1854-1912); a hand-written poem by Celia Thaxter (1835-1894); a hand-written note by James Thomas Fields (1817-1881); a hand-written letter by Wilkie Collins (1824-1899); a hand-written note by Edward H. Sothern; hand-written notes and watercolors by E.A. Sothern; hand-written notes dated 1893 and 1901 by Helen Keller (1880-1969); a hand-written letter by Horace Scudder (1838-1902); and a hand-written note by Helena Chlapowska Modjeska.

This work will be included in Stuart Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.



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