He became a member of the golf course at theThe Maidstone Club and took daily summer
swims in the ocean. In the Hamptons, the historic, tree-lined streets provided him with the
vistas of contemporary life that he wanted to capture without nostalgia, drenched in light
and shadows. In this etching from 1920, of the Lion Gardiner house in Easthampton, the
figure in the left foreground, Uncle David Gardiner, was a local descendant of Lion Gardiner
and the current occupant when Hassam etched him standing among the elms in October of
that year. Cortissoz/Clayton 159.
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