LOVING CHILDE

Frederick Childe Hassam aka Childe Hassam (1859 ~ 1935)

Born in family home in Dorchester, Boston, in 1859. Childe, pronounced Child, was named after an uncle.  His father claimed descent from a seventeenth-century English immigrant whose name, Horsham, had been corrupted over time to Hassam.  Died in East Hampton, New York 1935.

 

           THE LIBERTIES OF AMERICA

"The Fourth of July, 1916

  

July Night, 1898

  

The Sonata, 1911

  

The Room of Flowers, 1894

  

Bowl of Goldfish, 1912

 

Listening to the Orchard Oriole, 1902

 

Couch on the Porch, 1914

 

French Tea Garden, 1910

"Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain."   ~ Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam, a pioneer of American Impressionism and perhaps its most devoted, PROLIFIC, and successful practitioner...

~ Essay H. Barbara Weinberg, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art