In the last decades of the century American Impressionism, as practiced by artists such as Childe Hassam and Frank W. Benson, became a popular style.

In 1882, Hassam became a free-lance illustrator ( known as a " black-and-white man " in the trade ), and established his first studio.

Hassam eventually became one of " The Ten ," a group of Impressionists.

His close friend and fellow artist J. Alden Weir commented to another artist, " Our mutual friend Hassam has been in the greatest of luck and merited success.

Nevertheless, Woodbury maintained a close friendship with John Singer Sargent and a pleasant acquaintance with many of his contemporaries including J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam.

Many of Twachtman's friends came to visit him at his home ; among them were Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, Henry Fitch Taylor, and Robert Reid.

During his lifetime, he numbered among his friends Chief Joseph, Emma Goldman, Ansel Adams, Robinson Jeffers, Clarence Darrow, Childe Hassam, Margaret Sanger, and John Steinbeck.

Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums.

Having had relatively little formal art training, Hassam was advised by his friend ( and fellow Boston Art Club member ) Edmund H. Garrett to take a two month " study trip " with him to Europe during the summer of 1883.

Hassam was particularly impressed with the watercolors of J. M. W. Turner.

By the mid-1880s, Hassam began painting cityscapes in nearby locales, with his Boston Common at Twilight ( 1885 ) being one of his first.

" Although he had shown steady improvement in his oil painting, before letting go of illustration Hassam decided to return to Paris with his wife.

One reviewer commented, " It is refreshing to note that Mr. Hassam, in the midst of so many good, bad, and indifferent art currents, seems to be paddling his own canoe with a good deal of independence and method.

His only " direct " contact with a French Impressionist artist was when Hassam took over Renoir's former studio and found some of the painter ’ s oil sketches left behind, " I did not know anything about Renoir or care anything about Renoir.

A colleague described Hassam as an artist " with a keen knowledge of distribution, the tactical ability to place his work.

Hassam viewed the new art trends from abroad with alarm, stating " this is the age of quacks, and quackery, and New York City is their objective point.

In 1913, Hassam was honored with a separate gallery showing at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, featuring thirty-eight pictures.

Three years later, in 1908, the museum acquired its first original piece of art, " Afternoon Sky, Harney Desert " by American impressionist painter Childe Hassam, who frequented Malheur and Harney counties in Eastern Oregon with his friend, C. E. S.

The American painting collection at the museum ranges from 18th-century portraits and 19th-century landscape painting to American Impressionism and modernism with works by acclaimed artists John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Hart Benton.

* The American Impressionists, including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

* August 27 – Childe Hassam, American painter ( b. 1859 )

* Childe Hassam ( 1859 – 1935 ), American Impressionist, stayed in the Florence Griswold House as part of the Old Lyme Art Colony

Major late-19th-century American exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Winslow Homer.

Others, such as Childe Hassam, took notice of the increasing numbers of French impressionist works at American exhibitions.

* American: the collection includes early American portraiture by James Peale and Mather Brown ; many works by painters of the Hudson River School, realist works by Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and works by the American impressionists Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase

* October 17-Childe Hassam, American Impressionist painter ( died 1935 )

Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.

In 2001, Ruscha was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters as a member of the Department of Art, after having previously received its Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund Award in 1992.

Frederick Childe Hassam ( October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935 ) was a prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes.

After a trip to Havana, Cuba, Hassam returned to New York and had his first major one-man auction show at the American Art Galleries in 1896, which featured over two hundred works that spanned his entire career to date.

Back in New York in 1897, Hassam took part in the secession of Impressionists from the Society of American Artists, forming a new society known as The Ten.

" As the new century began, some three decades after the Impressionists ' first exhibitions in France, Impressionism finally gained a legitimacy in the American art community, and Hassam began to sell to major museums and receive jury awards and medals, vindicating his belief in his vision.

The post-war art market boomed in the 1920s, and Hassam commanded escalating prices, though some critics thought he had become static and repetitive, as American art had begun to move on to the Realism of the Ashcan School and artists like Edward Hopper and Robert Henri.

Until a revival of interest in American Impressionism in the 1960s, Hassam was considered among the " abandoned geniuses ".

As French Impressionist paintings reached stratospheric prices in the 1970s, Hassam and other American Impressionists gained renewed interest and were bid up as well.

He collected works by a number of Nineteenth Century American masters, including paintings by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Childe Hassam, and John Twachtman.

" Hassam would later be called an " extreme Impressionist " himself.

The collection features artists including David Ericson, Gilbert Munger, Eastman Johnson, William Hart, John Twachtman, Homer Dodge Martin, and Childe Hassam.

" In 1885, a noted critic, in part responding to Hassam ’ s early oil painting A Back Road ( 1884 ), stated that " the Boston taste for landscape painting, founded on this sound French school, is the one vital, positive, productive, and distinctive tendency among our artists today ... the truth is poetry enough for these radicals of the new school.

Prints include work by some of the same artists as well as Grant Wood, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Childe Hassam, John Steuart Curry, and Edward Hopper.

The organizing forces behind the Ten were Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman.