Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
News Depot, Cos Cob, 1912
Oil on cigar box lid, 5 1/4 x 8 3/4”
Signed and dated on reverse

Hassam, who was in Cos Cob periodically for 20 years, memorialized a store visited daily by the artists who boarded at the Holley House. Because they feared their favorite village would grow crowded, the artists shunned publicity. Residents were grateful for that and for the increased income that the artists brought them. In time, artists and local people mingled comfortably, if not always enthusiastically, in Connecticut towns that had an art colony.