1890, Child Hassam, Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This painting is one of the finest works in a series Hassam made during summers in the 1890s on Appledore Island, the largest in a group of islands called the Isles of Shoals, ten miles east of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. (Appledore actually lies in Maine waters.) The series portrays the sumptuous wildflower garden cultivated by Hassam's friend Celia Thaxter, a poet and amateur artist, which provided a marvelous contrast to the island's rugged terrain. In the painting, vibrant red poppies entangled in lush green foliage introduce a view of sun-bleached Babb's Rock. Nowhere visible is the hotel owned and operated by Thaxter's family.
1890, Child Hassam, Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: This painting is one of the finest works in a series Hassam made during summers in the 1890s on Appledore Island, the largest in a group of islands called the Isles of Shoals, ten miles east of Ports- mouth, New Hampshire. (Appledore actually lies in Maine waters.) The series portrays the sumptuous wildflower garden cultivated by Hassam's friend Celia Thaxter, a poet and amateur artist, which provided a marvelous contrast to the island's rugged terrain. In the painting, vibrant red poppies entangled in lush green foliage introduce a view of sun-bleached Babb's Rock. Nowhere visible is the hotel owned and operated by Thaxter's family.