PORTLAND, Ore. — 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 ...

Childe Hassam’s “Poppies,” painted on the Isles of Shoals in 1891. Oil on canvas, 19.75 by 24 inches. (National Gallery of Art) (Test) ...

Impressionism has always been such a French thing, don’t you know. Chicago’s grandly wealthy but secretly bohemian society queen Bertha Palmer was a passionate Anglophile (King Edward V… ...

Childe Hassam's painting "Moonlight" completeed in 1892. (Courtesy Alex Jamison) For Seavey and other island scientists the artist’s landscapes are like time capsules to the island’s past.

Childe Hassam’s “Isles of Shoals.” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh The museum has tried hard not only to stimulate interest in the island’s history but to evoke its atmosphere.

The dealer who purchased Brooke Astor’s favorite painting, Childe Hassam’s “Flags, Fifth Avenue,” for $10 million quickly flipped it – with the final price on the work… ...

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) and Maurice Prendergast(1858-1924), two early modern American painters, were contemporaries who in many ways led parallel lives. Both grew up and studied in Boston. And bo… ...

Understanding Childe Hassam and this alluring island may be a smaller mystery of the world, but still, the team took it on with full vigor, as the project stretched out across four summers.

What You Need to Know: Impressionist Childe Hassam is one of the most influential American artists of the early 20th century—so much so that the artist’s flag-filled Avenue in the Rain (1917 ...