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Childe Hassam

Posted inArt

American Artists’ Fraught Responses to the First World War

by Anne Blood January 12, 2017January 17, 2017

From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists’ reactions to World War I.

Posted inArt

Finding the Realism in Impressionist Childe Hassam’s Work

Avatar photo by Debbie Hagan October 27, 2016October 26, 2016

The artist painted the rocks and coves of Appledore Island so realistically, they could be identified more than a century later.

Posted inArt

Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist’s Garden

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 8, 2016August 8, 2016

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 turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.

Posted inArt

How Artists Interpreted the Transformation of Paris into a City of Light

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 11, 2016August 29, 2016

GREENWICH, Conn. — Everything was illuminated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, from 5,000 electric lamps igniting the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Waterfall, a cascading fountain animated by colored lights.

Posted inArt

Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”

by Natasha Seaman August 16, 2015August 20, 2015

Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.

Posted inNews

Met Museum Gets $20M from Astor Estate but Childe Hassam Painting Still Missing

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 28, 2012April 2, 2012

When 1%-ers die, their deaths take far longer than then the deaths of 99%-ers. If their memories don’t linger among their friends and family — or at least their family foundations — then at least their afterlives continue in the courts for years, if not longer.

Posted inOpinion

Commemorating the Blizzard’s Aftermath…

by Kyle Chayka December 30, 2010December 30, 2010

New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it’s no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday’s storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here’s Hendrick Avercamp’s 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”.

Click through for some more of my favorite winter pictures.

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