When college students decorate their dorm rooms this fall, many will turn to posters of “At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight),” a Boston streetscape painted by noted impressionist Childe Hassam ...

Born in Dorchester, Mass. (since annexed by Boston), he painted Boston with a special fondness, giving us “Rainy Day, Columbus Avenue, Boston, 1884” and “Boston Common at Twilight, 1885-86 ...

Childe Hassam’s “Isles of Shoals.” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh “Sunset at Sea” is part of “American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals” at Peabody Essex ...

There is a wonderful painting by the 19th-century American artist Childe Hassam titled “Boston Common at Twilight” (above)—a wintry scene that is nevertheless warm and inviting, with golden ...

Childe Hassam's painting entitled "Sylph's Rock" of a trap dyke is seen next to a photograph of the location on Appledore Island. (Image of painting courtesy of Worcester Art Museum.

In 1892, at the age of 33, the American impressionist Childe Hassam confidently declared, “The man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday ...

The PEM collaborated with the North Carolina Museum of Art, Shoals Marine Laboratory, and photographer Alexandra de Steiguer for a Childe Hassam exhibit.

In the Met’s retrospective, for instance, “Boston Common at Twilight” (1885-1886) is aglow with a setting sun whose orange colors are reflected in the snow-covered park and trolley cars and ...

American Impressionist Childe Hassam called himself the "Marco Polo" of the art world. He traveled extensively in the late 1800s and early 1900s — painting the Isles of Shoals ...