OLD MULFORD HOUSE, EAST HAMPTON, 1930

Brigham Young University|Museum of Art
Works of Art: 150 years of American Painting

Artist: CHILDE HASSAM
1859 - 1935

Overall: 89.5 x 94 cm (35 1/4 x 37")

Oil on Canvas

A foremost proponent of American impressionism, Childe Hassam first visited the charming community of East Hampton, Long Island, in 1898. He purchased a home there twenty-one years later at the age of sixty-three. Hassam spent much of the last seventeen years of his life sketching in the village. His local subjects included the historic Mulford House, considered the most picturesque landmark in town and one of the most significant seventeenth-century structures on Long Island. Here his ublended brushstrokes and lively colors depict the house shimmering in the summer sunlight.