Portrait of Frederick Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam Painting Reproductions 13 of 13

1859-1935

American 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.

299 Hassam Paintings

Giant Magnolias, 1904 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

Giant Magnolias 1904

Oil Painting
$485
Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: HSS-12026
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 88.9 x 50.8 cm
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina, USA

White Church at Newport, 1901 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

White Church at Newport 1901

Oil Painting
$452
SKU: HSS-12027
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 66 x 61 cm
Private Collection

East Hampton (Old Mumford House), 1919 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

East Hampton (Old Mumford House) 1919

Oil Painting
$523
SKU: HSS-12028
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 54.4 x 76.2 cm
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA

June, 1905 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

June 1905

Oil Painting
$753
SKU: HSS-12029
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 213.4 x 213.4 cm
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA

Dawn, 1914 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

Dawn 1914

Oil Painting
$746
SKU: HSS-12030
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 124.5 x 132.1 cm
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA

New York Street, 1902 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

New York Street 1902

Oil Painting
$468
Canvas Print
$63.35
SKU: HSS-14633
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 59.7 x 49.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

A North East Headland, 1901 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

A North East Headland 1901

Oil Painting
$631
Canvas Print
$63.08
SKU: HSS-17828
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 63.8 x 76.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Mount Hood, 1881 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

Mount Hood 1881

Oil Painting
$448
SKU: HSS-18117
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 45.7 x 63.5 cm
Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA

The Island Garden, 1892 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

The Island Garden 1892

Paper Art Print
$47.49
SKU: HSS-18168
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 44.4 x 35.5 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, USA

Up the River, Late Afternoon, October, 1906 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

Up the River, Late Afternoon, October 1906

Paper Art Print
$59.24
SKU: HSS-18169
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 45.1 x 55.2 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, USA

Snowstorm, Madison Square, c.1890 by Hassam | Painting Reproduction

Snowstorm, Madison Square c.1890

Oil Painting
$465
Canvas Print
$52.14
SKU: HSS-18782
Frederick Childe Hassam
Original Size: 51.4 x 40.6 cm
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, USA

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