The Water Garden

Name: The Water Garden
Summary: This intimate landscape, with its strong rhythmic composition, flattened space, and tapestry-like application of paint, illustrates the modification of Hassam's style at the turn of the century when he absorbed Post-Impressionist developments. The painting is thought to have been executed on the property of a friend in East Hampton who had a beautiful lily pond surrounded by irises. Hassam was later to buy his own home in East Hampton, where he spent long periods during the last sixteen years of his life. (Source: MET Museum Collection database)
Artist: Hassam, Childe
Date: 1909
Topic: Water lilies; Irises (Plants); Impressionism (Art)--United States; Gardens
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)
place of creation: East Hampton
location of: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York City
Provenance: Partial and Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1994
Identifier: 1994.450
Source: MET Museum Collection. Item: 1994.450
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