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Introduction 



s AN ARTIST, Childc Hassam (1859-1935) needs no 

 introduction, but it is not widely known that he 

 was one of the leaders in the revival of lithography as 

 an art medium in America. 



This movement is usually associated with the names 

 of Arthur B. Davies, Bolton Brown, George Bellows, 

 Albert Sterner, and Joseph Pennell, and it remains a 

 mystery why Hassam' s contributions, which are indeed 

 important, have so far been neglected by the catalogers . 



The lithographs of his contemporaries Davies, Pennell, 

 and Bellows are well known and have been fully cata- 

 loged, but during the more than four decades that have 

 elapsed since Hassam produced his last lithograph 

 (1918) no separate study of his prints has appeared. 

 In fact, although his work in other media has been 

 fully described, these are scarcely mentioned in bio- 



