Childe Hassam was a well-known American painter and illustrator of Impressionism. Due to his parents’ kinship with painters and writers, he had contacts with intellectual circles early in his life.
Born: 17 October 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 27 August 1935 in East Hampton, New York, USA
Due to the family’s kinship with the plein air painter William Morris Hunt, Childe Hassam's own style is led early in this direction. After an initial training in drawing, Hassam works as an illustrator for a long time. In addition to that, through his teacher Ignaz Marcel Gaugengigl, he also gets acquainted to French plein air painting and to German Realism. In his early work, he still experiments with his own style, which alternates between these different styles. Only by means of a trip through Europe, he gets acquainted with the French Impressionists, and starts painting Impressionist landscapes alongside his famous, realistic Boston street scenes. In his later work, symbolic motifs are added, which in turn represent an extension of his work.
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Oil Paintings