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Childe Hassam | |||
| Born
1859 in Dorchester, MA Died 1935 in East Hampton, NY |
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| Nude, Appledore, Isle of Shoals, 1913 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 35 5/8 x 25 1/8 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Crosby Kemper, Jr. 2000.5 |
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| Like many of the American
Impressionists, Hassam studied in Paris, where he was influenced by the
French Impressionists. While his paintings are characterized by poetic attention
to light and color, he is perhaps best known for his patriotic post-World
War I paintings of the American flag called Flag Series, 1916–19.
Hassam, originally a member of New York’s National Academy of Design,
resigned from the Academy with nine other artists forming The Ten, a group
of American Impressionists. Appledore, where Hassam summered for decades,
is a small island in the Atlantic’s Isles of Shoals, outside Portsmouth,
New Hampshire. |