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The Impressionism
Childe
Hassam
Childe Hassam
(b Dorchester, MA, 17 Oct 1859; d East Hampton, NY, 27 Aug 1935).
American painter and printmaker. The son of Frederick F. Hassam, a prominent Boston merchant, and his wife, Rosa P. Hathorne, he was initially trained as an apprentice to a wood-engraver. From the late 1870s to the mid-1880s he executed drawings for the illustration of books, particularly children’s stories. He had a long affiliation with the Boston firm of Daniel Lothrop & Co., for whom he illustrated E. S. Brooks’s In No-man’s Land: A Wonder Story (1885), Margaret Sidney’s A New Departure for Girls (1886) and numerous other books.
The New York Window
Fiacre, Rue Bonaparte
1888
