From Hassam to Wyeth: Gifts from Doris and Shouky Shaheen

"Wainscott Links," 1907, Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935); Gift of Doris and Shouky Shaheen, 2020.58

This exhibition celebrates Doris and Shouky Shaheen's recent gift of twelve American oils and watercolors to the Norton Museum of Art. Ranging in style from Impressionism to Realism, the works demonstrate how American painters continued to depict the nation's distinctive and evolving landscape from the late 19th into the 20th centuries. In addition to Childe Hassam and Andrew Wyeth, artists represented include William Glackens, Jane Peterson, Edward Henry Potthast, John Henry Twachtman, Guy Wiggins, and Wyeth's son, Jamie.

Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917-2009), The Lobster Trap, 1937