63121: CHILDE HASSAM Worlds Columbian Exposition, Start Price USD 37,500.00 Current Price USD 50,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 End Time Thursday, November 20, 2008 Location Heritage Auction Galleries See more about '63121: CHILDE HASSAM Worlds Columbian Exposition,' Description click for larger image63121: CHILDE HASSAM World's Columbian Exposition, CHILDE HASSAM (American, 1859-1935)World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1892Watercolor and gouache on paper en grisaille17-1/2 x 14 inches (44.5 x 35.6 cm)Signed and dated lower left: Childe Hassam / Chicago / 1892 PROVENANCE:Sotheby's, New York, May 24, 1990, lot 126; Leonard Green, Beverly Hills;The Tina and Duffy Oyster Foundation, Dallas.LITERATURE:Hirschl & Adler Galleries, The Arts of the American Renaissance, New York, 1985, no. 30, p.52, illus.In honor of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of the New World, Chicago in 1892 won the bid to host the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago's win over rival cities New York, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C., was symbolic of the metropolis' revival following the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Architects Daniel Burnham and John Root led the construction of nearly two hundred Beaux Arts-style buildings on the fairgrounds, nicknamed "The White City". Childe Hassam first traveled to Chicago in 1892 and received a commission for adding skies and figures to other artists' architectural drawings of the World's Exposition, which were intended for a series of chromolithographs entitled Gems of the White City. The present example is one of several original views of the buildings completed during this visit that Hassam painted in watercolor and gouache. This work will be included in Stuart Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.Condition Report: Paper hinged in upper left and right corner, overall good conditin.Alternate Artist Spellings: "Childe Hassam", "Hassam, Childe", "Hassam, Frederick Childe", "Hassam, Frederick Childs"Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)Important notice: Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 100-110 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. 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