TT: Waving the flag

If you’re taking the day off and don’t know why, perhaps this painting, Childe Hassam’s “Allies Day, May 1917,” will remind you. It’s part of a now-celebrated series of paintings on which Hassam embarked after seeing the Preparedness Day parade that took place in New York City on May 13, 1916. “I painted the flag series after we went into the war,” he later recalled. “There was that Preparedness Day, and I looked up the avenue and saw these wonderful flags waving, and I painted the series of flag pictures after that.”
To learn more about Hassam’s flag paintings, go here.
To view a 1932 film of Hassam at work, go here.