During the summer of 2011, the year after the completion of its 125,000 square foot expansion, the Crocker Art Museum luxuriated in the study of American Impressionism. Their exhibition, Transcending Vision: American Impressionism, 1870-1940 showed that even with the lack of modern international travel modes in the late 1800s, American artists were still able to explore the French countryside and absorb the ways of Impressionism. Artists returned stateside with new ideas that evolved into a distinctly American style of painting.

One such painting was Childe Hassam’s “Old House, East Hampton“, which is featured on the Crocker Art Museum’s banner used to promote the exhibition.