Who is childe hassam

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Turner - James McNeill Whistler - Claude Monet - Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Edward E. By the turn of the 20th century, Hassam was famous for his scenes of urban life, often New York City. His passion for nature is evident in his habit of spending summers traveling and painting in the rural areas in New England—coastal villages such as Cos Cob and the Isle of Shoals. An invitation by C. Wood to visit Oregon brought him to the state in Hassam had been commissioned by the Wood family to paint a mural for their library, and he came to install it, meet Wood, and paint the landscape of Oregon.

During his two-and-a-half-month visit he painted the Oregon coast, Mount Hood, and the Cascade Mountains as well as some of southeastern Malheur County. Wood, who had served as an agent for several artists here, hoped to encourage patronage of Hassam's work among several Portland families. A second trip to Oregon, in , was primarily focused on the Harney desert in Malheur County. Hassam and Wood often painted side by side; photos exist of the two artists with their easels set up, painting the same scene outdoors in Eastern Oregon.

Wood was an amateur artist of respectable talent, and some of those paintings still exist. Despite his best efforts, after the war's end Hassam was unable to keep the nearly thirty flag paintings together as a memorial.

Angered by this he wrote in , "I have heard it before!! Nobody ever heard of New York subscribing anything for the fine arts They [the flag paintings] will probably be sold in the west somewhere - and the enthusiastic New Yorkers will have to pay railroad fare to go and see them!

I don't care a damn what you do about it. Despite his emergence as one of the leaders of a new American art movement, near the end of his life Hassam became increasingly vocal against developing styles of modernism as well as European artists. Battling failing health and increased bouts of drinking, he continued to paint until his death in Childe Hassam proved quick to pick up on the latest developments in European art in the s and worked assiduously to adapt it to the depictions of modernizing, industrializing America.

Yet he also remained a devotee of Impressionism even long after it had been superseded as cutting-edge by other movements in modern art. Hassam's work helped to pave the way for other artists such as Edward Hopper , Charles Burchfield , and Andrew Wyeth , who, while they differed from him stylistically, remained committed to developing a home-grown, distinctively American subject matter.

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