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 ...

I’m grateful for the way my city has nourished my art and imagination. There is a wonderful painting by the 19th-century American artist Childe Hassam titled “Boston Common at Twilight ...

They stuck around for a tour of the galleries, and hung out by Childe Hassam ’s 1885-1886 painting “Boston Common at Twilight.’’ Later on, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...