Spring Morning in the Heart of the City

Childe Hassam American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

Hassam’s city scenes often focused on Manhattan’s spine, Fifth Avenue, and the then-fashionable parks that adjoined it. Here, he recorded the busy area west of Madison Square Park, which was established before 1850 between Fifth and Madison Avenues just north of Twenty-Third Street. The entrance to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, denoted by a classical portico, a large circular clock, and two curbside gaslights, appears at the lower left. This elegant hotel and others, along with theaters, concert halls, and restaurants, made Madison Square one of the city’s most vibrant centers for entertainment and tourism during the 1890s.

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Spring Morning in the Heart of the City, Childe Hassam (American, Dorchester, Massachusetts 1859–1935 East Hampton, New York), Oil on canvas, American

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