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Childe Hassam
Avenue of the Allies, 1918
Revelers thronged Fifth Avenue during September and October 1918 to view shop-window displays and flags raised to support the sale of Liberty Loans. Organizers of this dazzling fundraising campaign referred to the festooned stretch of Manhattan as the "Avenue of the Allies," as each block celebrated the efforts of one of twenty-two Allied nations. Here, American Impressionist Childe Hassam foregrounds the section dedicated to Brazil -- the only independent South American country to enter the war.
Hassam made a series of more than thirty flag paintings during the war, including The Flag, Fifth Avenue on view in VMFA's American Art galleries. |