THE DISEASE OF HASSAM – As soon as he could, Hassam entirely devoted himself to painting

FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM 1/4 – Of the many ways to express the visual art he knew those of oil and tempera paintings, watercolors and pastels, but he was also an engraver, designer and illustrator. His career, however, began with an illustrator and watercolor painter. He will also go to Paris to follow courses in painting and drawing of human figures, visiting galleries and museums, in the years of the flowering of Impressionism. FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM 2/4 – As for the French Impressionists, he wrote “Even Claude Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and the school of extreme Impressionists do some things that are charming and that will live.” Later, he would be called an “extreme Impressionist” himself. FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM 3/4 – In New York – where he found a studio apartment at Fifth Avenue and Seventeenth – he attended the environments of the American Watercolor Society, painting the popular atmosphere of this city. He enthusiastically painted the genteel urban atmosphere of New York that he encountered within walking distance of his apartment, and avoided the squalor of the lower-class neighborhoods. FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM 4/4 – On the scenario of creativity, he has set up genre scenes and human figures, portraits and nudes, interiors, along with gardens and green landscapes, sunny marine and urban landscapes. One of his paintings – “Flags in the rain” – is present in the Oval Office of the President of the United States. You can see more on Meeting Benches, looking for: FREDERICK CHILDE HASSAM (1859/1935), AMERICAN PAINTER – A pioneer impressionist painter, whose work always retained a definitely native flavor