The Vermont Village (Peacham)
1923
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Museum of American History, Division of Graphic Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Accession Number
1971.220
Tags
Art Historical Context
Childe Hassam's *The Vermont Village (Peam)* (1923) captures the serene charm of rural New England in a delicate graphic arts print. As a leading figure in American Impressionism, Hassam often depicted everyday American scenes with loose brushwork and vibrant light effects in his paintings, but here he turns to printmaking to evoke the quaint streets and white-steepled church of Peacham,—a quintessential small town embodying early 20th-century ideals of simplicity and community. Created during Hassam's later career, when he increasingly explored the American countryside amid post-World War I ...
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...