The Water Garden (Childe Hassam)

The Water Garden is a 1909 painting by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Water Garden
ArtistChilde Hassam
Year1909
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions61 cm × 91.4 cm (24 in × 36.0 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Description

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The painting depicts a vivacious patch of flowers set on a flat field of grass.[1] This seemingly flat plain is pockmarked with shallow ponds that have been grown-over with aquatic plants. The painting has been noted for being heavily inflected on by post-impressionist artistic thought. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's description of the painting, Hassam's work was likely painted in East Hampton, where the artist spent his final years.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Weinberg, Helene Barbara; Gallery, Queensland Art (2009). American Impressionism & Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the MET, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-1-876509-99-6.
  2. ^ "The Water Garden". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-06-20.