45 lithographs for the most part executed in a broad 

 manner. 



As the resuk of the Umited market for Hthographic 

 prints in the 1 920's this work, all of which was printed 

 by George C. Miller of New York City, realized only 

 negligible sales between 1920 and 1934. In the latter 

 year Kleemann Galleries became sole publishers of 

 Hassam's lithographs. Henry Kleemann, in a preface 

 to the price list he issued in that year stated that these 

 were typical of Hassam's New York and New England 

 scenes, and he invoked the artist's well-publicized 

 reputation as an impressionist: 



. . . witness his well known superb etchings and paintings, of 

 Long Island, the New England countryside, of New York and of 

 many figure subjects. You will find this same typical subject 

 matter represented in his lithographic work. 



Despite Hassam's popularity, the lithographs failed 

 commercially, and at the request of the artist's widow 

 in 1940, the remaining prints were distributed among 

 public collections throughout the country. 



Hassam's lithographs contain, in addition to elements 

 of impressionism,^ some qualities allied to expressionism, 

 two art movements whose aims were essentially in 

 opposition. Most of his landscape lithographs were 

 completed out-of-doors, and Hassam developed, as 

 did the impressionists, a technique of rough notation 

 for simplifying and achieving rapidly the effects of 



' French impressionism, primarily a painting movement with almost no 

 representation in sculpture, heightened the key of the Barbizon school 

 palette, as used by Millet and Rousseau, in order to achieve intensified 

 atmospheric qualities, and often allowed the eye itself to mix the colors 

 after they were applied. German expressionism, which placed heavy 

 emphasis on the print media, derived much of its energy not only from 

 medieval art and 15th-century woodcuts, but from the primitive and folk 

 arts, while these were still only the concern of the professional ethnologist. 

 African wood carving, with its powerful simplification of form, was a 

 particular inspiration for the expressionists. 



