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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Flower garden, Isles of Shoals, 1893

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Flower garden, Isles of Shoals, 1893

Sale Date: May 22, 2008

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Mount Vernon Street, Boston, 1919

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Mount Vernon Street, Boston, 1919

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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Spring in Central Park, 1908

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Spring in Central Park, 1908

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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Pont-Aven, 1897

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Pont-Aven, 1897

Sale Date: May 21, 2008

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The church at old lime, 1924

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The church at old lime, 1924

Sale Date: April 30, 2008

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The church at Old Lyme, 1924

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The church at Old Lyme, 1924

Sale Date: May 1, 2008

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The Lion Gardiner house, Easthampton, 1920

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The Lion Gardiner house, Easthampton, 1920

Sale Date: May 1, 2008

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Cos Cob, 1915

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Cos Cob, 1915

Sale Date: March 6, 2008

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Cos Cob, 1915

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Cos Cob, 1915

Sale Date: March 7, 2008

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

Sale Date: November 11, 2007

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Isles of Shoals, 1909

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Isles of Shoals, 1909

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Gloucester Harbor, 1918

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Gloucester Harbor, 1918

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Sunset at sea, 1911

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Sunset at sea, 1911

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Uncle benny's dune, 1925

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Uncle benny's dune, 1925

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Perros-Guirec, Côtes du Nord, France, 1910

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Perros-Guirec, Côtes du Nord, France, 1910

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Field of poppies, Isles of Shoals, Appledore, 1890

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Field of poppies, Isles of Shoals, Appledore, 1890

Sale Date: November 29, 2007

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Nude: Isle of Shoals, 1906

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Nude: Isle of Shoals, 1906

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Spring morning, rue Mt. Cenis Montmartre, 1889

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Spring morning, rue Mt. Cenis Montmartre, 1889

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Broadstairs cottage, 1889

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Broadstairs cottage, 1889

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Fire opals (Lady in furs: Portrait of Mrs...., 1912

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Fire opals (Lady in furs: Portrait of Mrs...., 1912

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Grocery Store, Phoenecia, 1917

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Grocery Store, Phoenecia, 1917

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Old House, Newburgh, New York, 1916

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Old House, Newburgh, New York, 1916

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Walden pond

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Walden pond

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Evening on the river, 1902

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Evening on the river, 1902

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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