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| Keywords: The Avenue in the Rain Frederick Childe Hassam 1917.jpeg en The Avenue in the Rain oil on canvas by the American painter Childe Hassam 42 in x 22 25 in Courtesy of The White House Collection The White House Washington D C Image courtesy of The Athenaeum <br> Notes from Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 <br> The Avenue in the Rain is one of some 30 related paintings of flag-decorated streets that the artist Childe Hassam produced between 1916 and 1919 during and immediately after the First World War They are intensely patriotic works The avenue is Fifth Avenue frequently decorated with American flags as American sentiment moved from isolationism toward intervention The artist's most striking device here is the projection of flags into the picture from points of unseen anchor beyond the frame In one sense the flags become the surface of the painting Observing shadows to be bluish rather than black the Impressionists often became mannered in their use of blue making it a dominant hue in many of their paintings Here the rain and the rain-slicked streets give Hassam an excuse for a literal wash of blue and blue-gray enhanced by a profusion of reflections The Athenaeum http //www the-athenaeum org/art/full php ID 26922 <br> http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 14 Creator Childe Hassam 1917 <gallery> File Barack Obama working at his desk in the Oval Office jpg </gallery> PD-old Flag paintings by Childe Hassam Paintings of flags of the United States Paintings in the White House 5th Avenue Manhattan 1917 paintings Impressionist paintings in the United States Images from the-athenaeum org Art in the Oval Office | ||||
