Childe at Art


Up the River, Late Afternoon, October Impressionist Childe Hassam was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on this day in 1859.

Few American painters have been as critically acclaimed and successful during their lifetime as Hassam. He was one of the earliest importers of French impressionism into this country, beginning in 1889, during a period in which many Americans looked once more to Europe for cultural inspiration.

Hassam's success in transplanting the themes and style of Monet and Renoir to America can be judged from Up the River, Late Afternoon, October.

Learn more about this artist in "Childe Hassam's America," an article from our journal American Art.

Source: William Kloss. Treasures from the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).

Pictured: Childe Hassam,1859–1935, Up the River, Late Afternoon, October, 1906, pastel on paper, 17 3/4 x 21 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly.