Morning, Isles of Shoals

Artist Frederick Childe Hassam American, 1859–1935

Date1890

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensionsheight and width: 16 × 22 in. (40.6 × 55.9 cm)
height, width, and depth (Framed): 27 × 33 × 2 7/8 in. (68.6 × 83.8 × 7.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Ann and Jim Goodnight

Object number2024.23.2

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Label TextThough he chafed at being called an impressionist, Childe Hassam was the most accomplished of the American painters influenced by Monet. Many of his most engaging paintings were executed during summer weeks spent on the Isles of Shoals, a group of rocky islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine.

This painting conveys Hassam’s quietly rapturous experience of nature. One imagines the artist rising in the dark to carry his canvas, easel, and paint box out to the eastern headlands of Appledore Island, there to bear witness to a radiant dawn.
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