Heavy Surf, High Tide, Easthampton
Childe Hassam
1920
Medium
etching in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 20 × 30.32 cm (7 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 25.72 × 33.97 cm (10 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Childe Hassam)
Accession Number
2015.19.456
About the Artist
Childe Hassam · 1859–1935
Frederick Childe Hassam, born on October 17, 1859, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to a family of New England descent with ties to Nathaniel Hawthorne through his mother, Rosa Delia Hawthorne, displayed an early aptitude for art. After his father's cutlery business was ruined by the Great Boston Fire of 1872, Hassam apprenticed as a wood engraver under George E. Johnson while taking drawing and wate...