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Fifth Avenue

1919

Childe Hassam

(American, 1859–1935)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 86.4 x 76.2 x 6.4 cm (34 x 30 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 51.5 cm (24 1/8 x 20 1/4 in.); Former: 76.5 x 66.5 x 4.5 cm (30 1/8 x 26 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift 1952.539
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Print
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Did You Know?

During World War I, the fiercely nationalistic Hassam was mistakenly arrested for being a German spy.

Description

Childe Hassam was fascinated by bustling Fifth Avenue, the famed Manhattan thoroughfare quickly becoming a popular shopping district around the time he made this painting. His composition features flecks of color and blurred
forms to approximate reflected light and rapid movement. The accelerated pace of modern life is suggested through the street full of streaming traffic, including two green double-decker buses at lower right.
Oil painting in blue tones of the Fifth Avenue city street, created with loose flecks of paint. The street cuts diagonally across the painting from our lower right, buildings rising in the upper half and streaks suggesting swarms of people moving through the lower half. Beyond blue, brown and golden yellow fleck the buildings and people closest to us while the crowds thicken towards the back, becoming more of a solid, misty white and blue.

Fifth Avenue

1919

Childe Hassam

(American, 1859–1935)
America

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