Another favourite painting of mine, this one takes me back to summer holidays in my parents’ house, curled up with books and completely lost in their worlds.
Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob is a quietly luminous work associated with the Cos Cob art colony in Greenwich, Connecticut, a community that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century. Painted by Childe Hassam, one of the leading American Impressionists, it captures a moment of domestic ease: a simple porch softened by warm light, a comfortable couch, and the gentle interplay of sun and shadow drifting across wooden boards. Hassam was known for translating everyday American settings into scenes of shimmering colour and atmosphere, and this piece is no exception. It reflects the leisurely rhythm of summer days in Cos Cob, where artists gathered to paint and explore new ways of depicting light, texture, and the feeling of lived-in spaces.
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