Brock Churchill Hazard

6 FIG. 6 William W. Churchill (1858–1926) Leisure, 1910 Oil on canvas 29⅞ x 25⅛ inches Signed and dated lower left Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 12.325 Photograph © 2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Arthur Hazard’s later years were spent in Los Angeles, California, where he moved in 1923 for health reasons.He remained active there, continuing to paint portraits and landscapes. Hunting Scene (Fig. 3) was most likely painted by Hazard before his departure for California. The light effects that are so successful in his interior scenes are visible in this expansive landscape, as is the loose impressionist brushwork that recalls the dress and hat in Hazard’s early painting, The Letter (Fig. 7). Sailboats through the Trees (Fig. 4), with its soft suffused sunlight, shows Hazard’s talent for translating what he saw in nature to the canvas.