1909, Childe Hassam, The Water Garden -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This intimate landscape, with its rhythmic composition, compressed space, and tapestry-like application of paint, demonstrates the modification of Hassam's style at the turn of the century, when he began absorbing Post-Impressionist influences. The flat, decorative arrangement of natural forms, reminiscent of Japanese designs, seems to honor, visually, the Japanese irises depicted within it. Hassam may have painted The Water Garden on a friend's East Hampton property on Long Island, New York, which featured a beautiful lily pond surrounded by irises. Hassam would later purchase his own home nearby and spend much of the last sixteen years of his life there.
1909, Childe Hassam, The Water Garden -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This intimate landscape, with its rhythmic composition, compressed space, and tapestry-like application of paint, demonstrates the modification of Hassam's style at the turn of the century, when he began absorbing Post-Impressionist influences. The flat, decorative arrangement of natural forms, reminiscent of Japanese designs, seems to honor, visually, the Japanese irises depicted within it. Hassam may have painted The Water Garden on a friend's East Hampton property on Long Island, New York, which featured a beautiful lily pond surrounded by irises. Hassam would later purchase his own home nearby and spend much of the last sixteen years of his life there.