Childe Hassam

(American, 1859–1935)

Childe Hassam was an American painter best known for his impressionistic depictions of Boston, New York, and the countryside and coastline of New England. Hassam along with J. Alden Weir and John Henry Twatchman helped introduce what came to be known as American Impressionism to museums, dealers, and younger artists during the 1890s. Among Hassam’s most famous paintings are his depictions of the boisterous flag-draped streets of New York at the onset of World War I. “The man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him,” he once reflected. Born Frederick Childe Hassam on October 17, 1859 in Dorchester, MA, he grew up in a well-to-do family before his father lost his business in a fire. Trained as a draftsman at a wood engraving shop, Hassam opened his own commercial illustration company in 1881. Having already made significant strides in both watercolor and oil painting, in 1886 he traveled to Paris where he studied at the famed Académie Julian. Returning to New York three years later, he began depicting American scenes with the pastel palette and broken brushstrokes of the French Impressionists. The artist died on August 27, 1935 in East Hampton, NY. Today, Hassam’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among others.

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Polly Kane, 1917

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Polly Kane, 1917

Sale Date: October 31, 2008

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Helen Burke, 1917

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Helen Burke, 1917

Sale Date: October 31, 2008

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Porte St. Martin, Paris, 1898–1915

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Porte St. Martin, Paris, 1898–1915

Sale Date: October 31, 2008

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St. Sepulchre, Strand, 1915

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St. Sepulchre, Strand, 1915

Sale Date: October 31, 2008

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The dressing table, 1916

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The dressing table, 1916

Sale Date: October 30, 2008

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Washington's birthday, Fifth avenue &..., 1916

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Washington's birthday, Fifth avenue &..., 1916

Sale Date: October 28, 2008

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Walt Whitman's birth-place, 1927

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Walt Whitman's birth-place, 1927

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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General Jackson's house, New Orleans, 1927

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General Jackson's house, New Orleans, 1927

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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A Vermont village, 1923

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A Vermont village, 1923

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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Landscape, land of nod, 1918

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Landscape, land of nod, 1918

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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Spring, Central Park, 1916

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Spring, Central Park, 1916

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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Calvary church in the snow, 1915

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Calvary church in the snow, 1915

Sale Date: September 23, 2008

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An Easthampton Idyll, 1923

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An Easthampton Idyll, 1923

Sale Date: September 18, 2008

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Cos cob, 1915

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Cos cob, 1915

Sale Date: September 18, 2008

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Riverside, Holland, 1883

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Riverside, Holland, 1883

Sale Date: September 24, 2008

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Dumbarton Rock, 1883

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Dumbarton Rock, 1883

Sale Date: September 24, 2008

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Bowling on the green, 1931

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Bowling on the green, 1931

Sale Date: June 24, 2008

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An East Hampton idyll, 1923

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An East Hampton idyll, 1923

Sale Date: June 20, 2008

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Sixth Avenue EL-nocturne (The EL, New York), 1894

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Sixth Avenue EL-nocturne (The EL, New York), 1894

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Wild swans sacred to Apollo, 1921

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Wild swans sacred to Apollo, 1921

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Rockweed Pool, 1902

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Rockweed Pool, 1902

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Rooftops, Pont-Aven, Brittany, 1897

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Rooftops, Pont-Aven, Brittany, 1897

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Paris, winter day, 1887

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Paris, winter day, 1887

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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End of the trolley line, Oak Park, Illinois, 1893

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End of the trolley line, Oak Park, Illinois, 1893

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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