The South Ledges, Appledore 1913 #1
by Childe Hassam
Title
The South Ledges, Appledore 1913 #1
Artist
Childe Hassam
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Hassam spent many summers on Appledore Island off the coast of Maine. Every year, he and a circle of musicians, writers, and other artists made an informal colony based at the home of his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. In Thaxter’s gardens and on the rocky beaches, Hassam used the flickering brushwork and brilliant colors he had adopted in France to capture the spangled light of Appledore’s brief summer. This painting evokes the leisurely, seasonal rhythms of America’s privileged families in the last years before the Great War. A beautifully dressed woman shields her face from the sun; she looks down and away as if absorbed in the song of a sandpiper, the island bird that inspired Celia Thaxter’s most famous children’s poem.
(c) Smithsonian American Art Museum
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