
Frederick Childe Hassam Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 13
1859-1935American Impressionist Painter
Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter. He was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and died in East Hampton, New York.
Hassam (pronounced HASS'm; Childe pronounced like child) left high school without graduating, and ended up working for a wood engraver. He attended drawing classes at the Lowell Institute, a division of MIT, and was a member of the Boston Art Club. He began his artistic career as an illustrator and watercolorist. By 1882, Hassam was exhibiting publicly and had his first solo exhibition, of watercolors, at the Williams and Everett Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts. The following year, his friend Celia Thaxter convinced him to drop his first name and thereafter was known simply as "Childe Hassam".
Having had little formal art training previously, Hassam went to Paris in 1886 to study figure drawing and painting at the Académie Julian. He studied under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. However, he later considered the education he received there "superfluous." What had a greater influence on Hassam's work was the art he was exposed to in the city's museums and galleries, especially the works of the Impressionists.
Hassam returned to America and settled in New York City in 1889. He soon become close friends with fellow artists J. Alden Weir and John Henry Twachtman, whom he met through the American Watercolor Society. Hassam enthusiastically painted the genteel urban atmosphere he discovered in New York, which he greatly preferred to Paris.
During his time in New York, Hassam made summer painting excursions to Thaxter's home on Appledore Island, Maine, the largest of the Isles of Shoals; and to Gloucester, Massachusetts; Cos Cob, Connecticut; and Old Lyme, Connecticut. He visited Xavier Martinez in 1914 in his Piedmont gallery to view Martinez' recent paintings of the Arizona desert. In 1919, he purchased a home in East Hampton, New York.
He was a member of the Ten American Painters group, which seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1898.
295 Paintings of Hassam
Flint Institute of Arts Michigan USA
Newport Waterfront
$412
Crocker Art Museum California USA
An Outdoor Portrait of Miss Weir
$495
$47.90
Detroit Institute of Arts Michigan USA
Place Centrale and Fort Cabanas, Havana
$379
$50.18
Detroit Institute of Arts Michigan USA
Surf and Rocks
$384
$47.90
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
The Smelt Fishers, Cos Cob
$302
$57.67
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
Seaweed and Surf, Appledore at Sunset
$472
$107.62
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco California USA
Easter Morning (Portrait at a New York Window)
$555
$82.13
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine
$343
$59.10
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
The Water Garden
$504
$47.90
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Surf, Isles of Shoals
$525
$50.80
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals
$480
$52.02
Los Angeles County Museum of Art California USA
Point Lobos, Carmel
$532
$93.72
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Golden Afternoon
$555
$47.90
Frye Art Museum Seattle USA
Parc Monceau, Paris
$334
$66.20
Private Collection
Pont-Aven, Noon Day
$370
$74.30
Private Collection
In Brittany
$439
$73.05
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910
$532
$60.76
Private Collection
Winter Sickle Pears
$405
$78.55
American Academy of Arts and Letters New York USA
Long Island Pebbles and Fruit
$458
$47.90
American Academy of Arts and Letters New York USA
Colonial Quilt
$525
$47.90
Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington Seattle USA
Old House and Garden, East Hampton
$349
$74.74
Guild Hall Museum East Hampton USA
Little Old Cottage, Egypt Lane, East Hampton
$488
$64.42
Private Collection
Lilies
$496
$73.20
Private Collection
The Fourth of July, 1916
$472
$51.61