The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Hands Holding a Book (verso)
1889
(American, 1859–1935)
Sheet: 18.7 x 13.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
Late in 1886, Hassam and his wife departed his native Boston for France, spending the next three years abroad. His work of this period reflected his burgeoning interest in French Impressionism; he increasingly used broken brushstrokes and a lighter palette. Rather than being labeled an American Impressionist, however, Hassam preferred to identify himself as a painter of "light and air." An early morning rosy sky illuminates this distant view of Canterbury Cathedral, one of several watercolors of the English city.- “A Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21–35. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26, no. 73 www.jstor.org
- America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-28, 1939).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1938.65