C.H. (Self-portrait of the artist)

Childe Hassam1920

Details

Title: C.H. (Self-portrait of the artist)
Creator: Childe Hassam
Date Created: 1920
Subject Keywords: artist portraits, male portraits, portraits, printmaker portraits, self-portraits
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil, lower right: “CH” monogram and “imp”; signed in plate, lower left: “CH” monogram and “1920”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Printed by the artist at Peter Platt’s press, New York; tack holes are signature of this press (see D. Kiehl, "Childe Hassam as Printmaker," Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalog 28 June–11 September 1977, cat. 12
Dimensions: 1935
Bibliography: Cortissoz 155, but stating that “N.Y.C.H.” is signed and inscribed in plate at lower left (not found in this DAC impression); Clayton 155; for more on Platt, see P. Morse, John Sloan’s Prints (New Haven, 1969), pp. 5–8
Associated People: Created by Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.41

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