Suzi at the Haggin

While the Haggin Museum staff is working on redesigning our art galleries, we have also been examining the stories and context that has long been attached to our core collection. Our team is specifically interested in how our new exhibit design will bring additional stories to the forefront of the Haggin collection. Through these discussions, many paintings in the Haggin collection have been deemed anchors to the Museum’s core collection and the Haggin narrative. These well-loved, historic Haggin favorites have been celebrated by our community; they have become essential to any discussion about the meaning and interpretation of the core collection. Childe Hassam’s THE CARRIAGE PARADE is one of those paintings.   Frederick Childe Hassam spent his formative years studying art in Boston. Between 1886 and 1889 Hassam lived in Paris and studied traditional academicism at the popular Académie Julian. Upon arrival in Paris, Hassam’s visually conservative techniques underwent a transformati

  Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives The Haggin Museum’s art collection is once again receiving national attention as some of our paintings are heading to Washington D.C.  We were recently approached by the office of the Honorable Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, requesting that we loan a painting for his office.   The Speaker was particularly interested in borrowing a painting by Albert Bierstadt because it highlights some of the beautiful landscapes of our country.    With our current project underway of reimagining our art collection, we were unsure if we would be able to meet the request.   However, after providing the Speaker’s office with an inventory of paintings that were available for a multi-year loan, Speaker Ryan and his wife requested five paintings.    We are honored to be loaning the following works:   In the Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt; Cloud Effect, Estes Park, Colorado by Albert Bi