The Ledges, October in Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1907
Oil on canvas, 18 x 18”
Signed and dated lower left
When Hassam exhibited this painting in the annual end-of-summer exhibition at the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme, a reviewer thought there might be "no contemporary artist who can render with greater distinction the sharp joyousness of the Autumn color and the Autumn air."
He might have noted, too, that this landscape is entirely natural. Nature alone has set these young trees growing among the boulders. Among the American Impressionists, Hassam, Twachtman, and Weir were especially fond of celebrating touches of the wild they came upon in the Connecticut countryside.