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Childe Hassam

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Childe (Frederick) Hassam (1859 - 1935) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Childe Hassam is known for Flag parades, figure and interior scene painting, etchings.

Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam became one of America's most noted Impressionist painters, but he never labelled himself in that way asserting he was more interested in the emotional content of his paintings than the technique of applying color. He also completed over 350 etchings and drypoints and about 45 lithographs, most of them after he was 56 years old. Watercolor was another specialty, and Hassam was one of the founders of the New York Water Color Society.

His parents were well educated and of New England Puritan heritage. They named him Frederick Childe Hassam, but he dropped that first name early in his career because someone persuaded him that the name of Childe was more exotic.

He left high school to work as a wood engraver and illustrator and in the1870s, studied art at the Lowell Institute and the Boston Art Club under Ignaz Gaugengigl. In 1883, he had his first one-man exhibition of watercolors at the prestigious Williams & Everett Galle   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 22982 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Childe Hassam available:    William Merritt Chase,  Maurice Brazil Prendergast,  John Singer Sargent,  Robert (Henry Cozad) Henri,  Winslow Homer,  George Inness,  Martin Johnson Heade,  Frederick Carl Frieseke,  Ernest Lawson,  Willard Leroy Metcalf,  George Bellows,  William James Glackens,  John Henry Twachtman,  Marsden Hartley,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  Albert Bierstadt,  Sanford Robinson Gifford,  John Frederick Kensett,  Andrew Newell Wyeth,  Mary Stevenson Cassatt,  William Trost Richards,  Milton Clark Avery,  Edward Henry Potthast,  Charles Burchfield



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Childe Hassam


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt SubjectGeography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
  • Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
  • Cape Cod, Massachusetts
  • Central Park, New York City
  • Charleston, South Carolina Pre 1940
  • Cos Cob, Connecticut
  • Europe
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Long Island, New York
  • Old Lyme, Connecticut
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
  • The Isle of Shoals-Appledore Island
  • Venice, Italy
  • West Virginia Before 1920
Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • New England Watercolor Society/Boston Watercolor Society
  • New York Water Color Club, Society-
  • Society of American Artists, New York
  • Society of Illustrators-
  • Society of Independent Artists-
  • The Ten/Ten American Painters
Art Teacher
  • Gustave Boulanger
  • Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
  • Otto Grundmann
Art School
  • Academie Julian, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
  • Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
  • J. Sanford Saltus Prize/Medal, National Academy of Design
  • Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, The Pennsylvania Academy
  • Thomas B Clarke Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anna and Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Gallery, Lincoln
  • Anschutz Collection
  • Daniel J Terra Collection
  • Gerald Peters Collection
  • Hainsworth Collection
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection
  • John J. McDonough Collection
  • Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
  • Preston Morton Collection
  • Rita and Daniel Fraad Collection
  • Susan & Herbert Adler Collection
  • The Marshall Collection
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
  • Warner Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • CENTURY MAGAZINE Illustrator
  • Charleston Renaissance Artist
  • Figure Specialty
  • HARPER'S WEEKLY, BAZAAR, MONTHLY Illustrator/Photos
  • Illustration Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Mural Specialty
  • Pastel Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
  • SCRIBNER'S Magazine Illustrator and/or Photographer
  • Snowscene Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Cos Cob Colony
  • Old Lyme Artist Colony
  • Rocky Neck, Gloucester, Cape Ann Massachusetts
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • AskART Panama Pacific Expo
  • Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
  • Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
  • Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • Society of Illustrators
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
  • Armory Show 1913, New York
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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