Postcard of "Sunny Blue Sea"

ID: SIA2013-07842 (front) and SIA2013-07843 (back)

Creator: Clarke & Way

Form/Genre: Postcard

Date: circa 1967-1970

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313, Box 32, Folder: NCFA-Postcards for Prints & Postcards, 1967-1970

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Summary

Color postcard of Childe Hassam's "Sunny Blue Sea" (1913), also known as "The South Ledges, Appledore," from the National Collection of Fine Arts, now in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The painting depicts a woman in a hat is sitting on the ledges by the sea. The front of the postcard has a white border. The postcard is unused.

Subject

  • Hassam, Childe
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • National Collection of Fine Arts

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Appledore Island, where the painting featured on this postcard was done, is off the coast of Maine.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 313, Box 32, Folder: NCFA-Postcards for Prints & Postcards, 1967-1970

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

circa 1967-1970

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Postcard
  • Art
  • Ocean

Place

  • Maine
  • Appledore Island (Me.)

Form/Genre

  • Postcard
  • Paper

ID Number

SIA2013-07842 (front) and SIA2013-07843 (back)

Physical description

Number of Images: 2; Color: Color; Size: 6.1w x 4.1h; Type of Image: Postcard; Medium: Paper

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