Remembering Childe Hassam on his birthday 🎂
📷 possibly by Caroline Reed Parson, 1913
@ArchivesAmerArt
"I know of no other painter with his power to make the world look convincingly joyous with its own joy, & this he seemed always able to do."
- Elisabeth Luther Cary Image
On Childe Hassam's birthday, download the free PDF version of H. Barbara Weinberg's 2004 book Childe Hassam: American Impressionist
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Childe Hassam
Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals, 1901
This was the first Hassam painting to be acquired by @metmuseum Image
Childe Hassam was a member of Ten American Painters, or "The Ten"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Ameri…
He's front & centre in this photograph from 1908
@smithsonian @ArchivesAmerArt Image
"Hassam's art reached its peak when he found in the New England freshness just the note that vibrated in sympathy with his delicately happy temperament."
- A. Hyatt Mayor
Childe Hassam
Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine, 1890
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