Childe Hassam in His Studio

© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproducti…
© Estate of Peggy Bacon
Childe Hassam in His Studio
© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Childe Hassam in His Studio

Date1934
Artist (American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
Illustration CitationOff With Their Heads, by Peggy Bacon (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934), pages not numbered.
MediumGraphite and charcoal on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (30.8 × 24.1 cm)
sheet: 15 7/8 × 13 1/2 in. (40.3 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1979-45
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn her 1934 book, Off with Their Heads! Bacon describes the painter and printmaker Childe Hassam, shown here nailing down etchings to dry, as follows:
Small, low cranium diminished behind, fastened tight to round knoll of shoulders. Brief nips of cream-white hair flattened over balditude. Cocky little eyebrows near the top of the head. Fat eyelids and crude nose with large round tunnels for nostrils. Mouth sucked in as if sipping through a straw. Violent double chin, lending height to a very short face. Big ears, clapped on at the sides like decorative medallions. Little hirstute, dexterous hands, a trifle fussy. Speech deliberate, insistent, assertive. Steps mincingly in British brogues with an air of the greatest complacency.
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Peggy Bacon
c. 1934
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Peggy Bacon
1931
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Peggy Bacon
1936
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Peggy Bacon
1930s
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Peggy Bacon
1931
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Peggy Bacon
c. 1945