
Frederick Childe Hassam Painting Reproductions Gallery 4 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.
299 Paintings of Hassam
Private Collection
In the Park
$413
$48.07
The Haggin Museum California USA
Carriage Parade
$346
$48.07
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Grand Prix Day
$645
$68.75
Dallas Museum of Art Texas USA
Along the Seine, Winter
$298
$48.07
Joslyn Art Museum Omaha USA
April Showers, Champs Elysees, Paris
$472
$48.07
Terra Museum of American Art Chicago USA
Une Averse - rue Bonaparte
$603
$62.75
Private Collection
Promenade at Sunset, Paris
$413
$48.07
Terra Museum of American Art Chicago USA
Mrs. Hassam and Her Sister
$272
$48.07
Private Collection
Carriage, Rue Bonaparte
$671
$64.34
Private Collection
La Fruitiere
$306
$48.07
Private Collection
Flower Girl
$342
$48.07
Private Collection
The Rose Girl
$619
$48.07
Private Collection
Geraniums
$465
$48.07
Private Collection
In the Garden
$459
$48.07
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA
Peach Blossoms - Villiers-le-Bel
$451
$60.49
Private Collection
A City Fairyland
$585
$70.10
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Boston Common at Twilight
$697
$62.58
Toledo Museum of Art Ohio USA
Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston
$764
$65.15
Private Collection
Village Scene
$383
$59.60
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
The Old Fairbanks House, Dedham, Massachusetts
$393
$75.79
Terra Museum of American Art Chicago USA
French Peasant Girl
$355
$48.07
Museum of Fine Arts Houston USA
Evening in New York (Rainy Midnight)
$400
$60.20
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
The Lady of the Gorge
$440
$48.07
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Massachusetts USA
Bathing Pool, Appledore
$481
$48.07