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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Twilight after rain, 1887–1889

Childe Hassam

Twilight after rain, 1887–1889

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Flag day, Fifth Avenue, July 4th 1916, 1916

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Flag day, Fifth Avenue, July 4th 1916, 1916

Sale Date: November 28, 2007

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Hickories in a hayfield, 1917

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Hickories in a hayfield, 1917

Sale Date: November 6, 2007

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

Sale Date: October 31, 2007

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

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House on Main Street, Easthampton, 1922

Sale Date: October 5, 2007

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The old barn and birches, 1933

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The old barn and birches, 1933

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Patio in the Vieux Carre, 1927

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Patio in the Vieux Carre, 1927

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Toby's Cos Cob, 1915

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Toby's Cos Cob, 1915

Sale Date: September 20, 2007

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Norman's Woe from E. Gloucester, 1918

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Norman's Woe from E. Gloucester, 1918

Sale Date: September 7, 2007

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Bowling on the green (from The twenty..., 1932

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Bowling on the green (from The twenty..., 1932

Sale Date: September 7, 2007

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Plaza Sevilla, 1910

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Plaza Sevilla, 1910

Sale Date: July 28, 2007

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Falaises à Etretat

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Falaises à Etretat

Sale Date: May 13, 2007

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Toby's, Cos Cob, 1915

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Toby's, Cos Cob, 1915

Sale Date: June 16, 2007

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Inner Harbor (Gloucester), 1918

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Inner Harbor (Gloucester), 1918

Sale Date: June 21, 2007

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Mrs. Hassam knitting, 1918

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Mrs. Hassam knitting, 1918

Sale Date: June 2, 2007

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Banks of the Seine, 1888

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Banks of the Seine, 1888

Sale Date: May 24, 2007

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Bowling on the green (from The..., 1931–1932

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Bowling on the green (from The..., 1931–1932

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Rue Montmartre, Paris, 1888

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Rue Montmartre, Paris, 1888

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Street - Auvers sur l'Oise, 1883

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Street - Auvers sur l'Oise, 1883

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Home sweet home cottage (on joined sheets), 1917

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Home sweet home cottage (on joined sheets), 1917

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Kitty walking in snow, 1918

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Kitty walking in snow, 1918

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Nocturne - Big Ben, 1898

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Nocturne - Big Ben, 1898

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Autumn, 1909

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Autumn, 1909

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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Promenade - Winter, New York, 1895

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Promenade - Winter, New York, 1895

Sale Date: May 23, 2007

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