Impressionism has always been such a French thing, don’t you know. Chicago’s grandly wealthy but secretly bohemian society queen Bertha Palmer was a passionate Anglophile (King Edward V… ...

Childe Hassam’s “Poppies,” painted on the Isles of Shoals in 1891. Oil on canvas, 19.75 by 24 inches. (National Gallery of Art) (Test) ...

Problem Childe? Hassam Deserves Close Look. By Terry Teachout. July 3, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. NEW YORK -- This is an anniversary of sorts -- my 50th report from Second City.

As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase ...

For nearly 30 summers, Hassam painted there. The first decade, he concentrated on flowers, charming views, and sunsets. The last two decades, after Thaxter’s death in 1894, he ventured out to ...

Frederick Childe Hassam (he dropped his first name in favor of Childe, an uncle’s surname) was born on October 17, 1859, in the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, now a part of Boston.

‘Moonlight’ (1892), by Childe Hassam. Photo: Alex Jamison. Salem, Mass. Six miles off the Atlantic coastline, where New Hampshire abuts Maine, is the archipelago known as the Isles of Shoals.

Childe Hassam's painting "Moonlight" completeed in 1892. (Courtesy Alex Jamison) For Seavey and other island scientists the artist’s landscapes are like time capsules to the island’s past.

PORTLAND, Ore. — American Impressionist Childe Hassam called himself the “Marco Polo” of the art world. He traveled extensively in the late 1800s and early 1900s — painting the Isles of ...

Hoopes, Donelson F., "Childe Hassam," New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979, pg. 50. Esten, John, "Childe Hassam: East Hampton Summers," East Hampton, NY: Guild Hall Museum, 1997, no. 1. Summary ...