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Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Winter in Union Square, 1889–90
Oil on canvas; 18 1/4 x 18 in. (46.4 x 45.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Miss Ethelyn McKinney, in memory of her brother, Glenn Ford McKinney, 1943 (43.116.2)
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Settling in New York after his return from Paris in 1889, Hassam sought subjects like those that had engaged him in France. The bustling city on the brink of the 20th century was an ideal home for an artist committed to Impressionism, a style that favored informal compositions to suggest instantaneous encounters with fragmented experience. Here, during his first winter in New York, Hassam portrayed snow-covered Union Square from a high vantage point at 17th Street, a block from his studio.
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