The Water Garden (Childe Hassam)

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

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.

Description

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

  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.