Place Centrale and Fort Cabanas, Havana

1895

Childe Hassam American, 1859-1935

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

In 1895 Hassam sailed on a pleasure trip from New York to Cuba aboard a friend’s yacht. On his arrival in Havana, he immediately made studies of Fort Cabanas and other colorful subjects. Taken from a high vantage point—the view from his hotel—Place Centrale describes the palpable heat of a tropical noon. The painting incorporates many of the techniques of Hassam’s European impressionist colleagues: spontaneous brushwork and broken colors, a cropped viewpoint, and unexpected angles of vision. Barely visible among the typically impressionist blue shadows of the trees are a number of sketchily rendered figures.

Title Place Centrale and Fort Cabanas, Havana

Artwork Date 1895

Artist Childe Hassam

Life Dates 1859-1935

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 21 1/4 × 26 1/4 inches (54 × 66.7 cm) Framed: 32 1/2 × 37 1/2 × 1 7/8 inches (82.6 × 95.3 × 4.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit City of Detroit Purchase

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 11.5

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Signed Signed and dated, lower right: Childe Hassam | Habana 1895

Inscriptions Inscribed, lower right: Childe Hassam | Habana 1895

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1911-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Burroughs, Clyde. "Contemporary American Art: Childe Hassam." Bulletin of the DMA 7, no. 3 (July 1913): pp. 54-55 (ill.).

Henshaw, Julia. Detroit Institute of Arts: A Visitor's Guide. Detroit, 1995, pp. 77 (ill.).

Galpin, Amy. In the Mind's Eye: Landscapes of Cuba=La mirada de quien contempla : paisajes de Cuba. Exh. cat., Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum FIU. Miami, 2022, p. 97, cat. 32 (ill.).

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