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The image shows a landscape with a rural setting. There are buildings, including a house with a sloped roof, and smaller structures. The horizon line is visible near the middle of the composition. The brushstrokes convey texture and depth, especially in the foliage and ground. The color scheme is monochromatic, with black tones on a beige background. Large trees are on the left, and the foreground features rough terrain.
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The image shows a landscape with a rural setting. There are buildings, including a house with a sloped roof, and smaller structures. The horizon line is visible near the middle of the composition. The brushstrokes convey texture and depth, especially in the foliage and ground. The color scheme is monochromatic, with black tones on a beige background. Large trees are on the left, and the foreground features rough terrain.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Afternoon Shadows

Childe Hassam

Date
1918
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 18.1 × 28.26 cm (7 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.) sheet: 26.67 × 39.05 cm (10 1/2 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.491
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam, 1940)
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • lithograph
  • Shadow
  • landscape
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

Inscription

lower right on stone: Childe Hassam, Sept. 12th 1918; lower right in graphite; [the artist's monogram]; lower left edge in green colored pencil by unknown hand: 131 [circled]; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: Afternoon Shadows; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: #26

NGA object ID 182688. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.