Childe Hassam, October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935, was an American painter and printmaker born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He began as a wood engraver and illustrator, attended drawing and painting classes in Boston, and studied in Paris from 1886 to 1889 at the Académie Julian.
Hassam settled in New York in 1889 and became a leading American Impressionist. He painted urban streets, New England gardens and coasts, and the flag-decorated avenues of New York during World War I; in 1898 he joined John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and others in founding The Ten American Painters.
Hassam spent his later summers in East Hampton, New York, and continued working in oils, watercolors, and printmaking. He died in East Hampton in 1935, leaving a large body of work now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and other major collections.
Photograph of Childe Hassam, 1915
Glass negative, 5 × 7 in or smaller
Library of Congress, Washington DC
A Back Road, 1884
Oil on canvas, 31 × 24.7 in
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890
Oil on canvas, 17.8 × 21.5 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Late Afternoon, New York, Winter, 1900
Oil on canvas, 36.9 × 29 in
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1905
Oil on canvas, 36.3 × 32.3 in
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
The Water Garden, 1909
Oil on canvas, 24 × 36 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910
Oil on canvas, 29.1 × 19.9 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Avenue in the Rain, 1917
Oil on canvas, 42 × 22.3 in
The White House, Washington DC
Norman Structure, 1885
Pen and black ink over graphite on board, 10.4 × 7.6 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, 13.9 × 10 in
Princeton University Art Museum
Drydock, Gloucester, c 1890s
Watercolor over ink and graphite pencil on paper, 13.2 × 19.5 in
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
The Gorge, Appledore, 1912
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13.8 × 19.9 in
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Washington’s Birthday—Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, 1916
Etching, 12.9 × 6.9 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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