Avenue of the Allies Childe Hassam, Oct(?) 19th 1918 ..

Crowded New York City street with flags flying from buildings.
Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Childe Hassam Celebrates Allies. During World War I, New York's Fifth Avenue was temporarily rechristened the Avenue of the Allies. Hassam's lithograph, based on his painting, shows the thoroughfare festooned with flags for the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive. The artist created at least thirty flag paintings, which were often exhibited twenty-two at a time to represent the number of Allied countries. Created about one month before the war's end on November 11, 1918, this lithograph became the frontispiece for A. E. Gallatin's 1919 book, Art and the Great War, which observed: "Credit is due to the Library of Congress for their foresight in assembling a large representative collection of posters and cartoons on the war."
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Signed and dated on stone; signed with monogram in pencil.
Griffith, no. 42
Gift; Mrs. Hassam; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:0050.48).
Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.
Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May - November 2016.