In this vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler illuminates the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today "At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)" seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler reveals the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from subtleties about women's place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. Enriched with reproductions of related paintings and archival illustrations, this evocative volume explores the countered conventions and bulldozed buildings behind the canvas's creation. Carefully researched and elegantly presented, the latest addition to the MFA Spotlight series will delight Hassam fans and history buffs alike.

Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight (MFA Spotlight Series)

Arts & Photography

Erica Hirshler

History & Criticism

MFA Publications/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This the paperback version of the 2014 "Degas/Cassatt" exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The exhibition examined the friendship and working relationship between artists Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt and their influence on each others work. The fully illustrated catalog also includes essays and a bibliography.

Degas Cassatt

Marc Rosen

Amanda Zehnder

Ann Hoenigswald

Elliot Bostwick Davis

Susan C. Pinsky

National Gallery of Art

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