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
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| The Room of Flowers, 1894 |
Bowl of Goldfish, 1912
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| 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
