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About Joseph H. Hatfield
One month after Manet exhibited Luncheon on the Grass, Joseph Henry Hatfield was born, on 21 June in Kingston, Ontario. Probably by 1889 or 1890 Hatfield went to Paris where he studied with Benjamin Constant, Henri-Lucien Doucet, and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He exhibited an early work in the Salon of 1891 called Une lettre de Papa, which announced the many genre scenes to come. By 1892 he was back in Boston where he grew up; that year he won a silver medal at Boston’s Charity Mechanics’ Association. The World’s Columbian Exposition, or the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 featured The Doll’s Bath, which was quite at home among the vast collection of landscapes and Salon style paintings. The painter was inspired by the seated child in John Singer Sargent’s The Boit Children. The execution is superb and the expression in this intimate-moment genre scene is charming and subtle. Hatfield may have remained briefly in Chicago since his September Afternoon and Helping Papa were exhibited at the Art Institute in 1894. The following year he sent Among the Flowers to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. |
Paintings by Joseph H. Hatfield
| Making Bubbles |
| oil on canvas: 16 x 13 inches |
| signed: lower right |
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