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Frederick Childe Hassam, after
American, 1859 - 1935
An Island Garden, a book by Celia Thaxter with pictures and illuminations by Childe Hassam , 1894
book with electrotype reproductions
Museum purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Donald Heyneman Fund 1992.125
author, Celia Laighton Thaxter~publisher, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.~printer, electrotype, The Riverside Press, Cambridge
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Son of prosperous merchant and antiquarian. Studied in Boston under I.M. Gaugengigl, and at the Academie Julian in Paris under Boulanger and Lefebvre until 1883. Spent five years in France, influenced by Monet. Became of the leading exponents of American Impressionism or "luminism". Worked as a painter and illustrator after return from Europe. In 1898 helped to found "The Ten", a group of rebels against the conservative American Academy. Influenced by Whistler. Began to etch in 1898 but these plates not completed until 1915. In 1917 began to experiment with lithography, but his lithographs were not commercially successful. ~~Reference: Cortissoz, Royal "The Etchings and Dry-points of Childe Hassam, N.A." New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1925 (nos. 1 through 238), ~~~"Childe hassam N.A." VOl 3 of American Etchers complied by The Crafton Collection, New York and London, 1929~Griffith, Fuller "The Lithographs of Childe Hassam/ a Catalogue", Bulletin 232, Smithsonian Insitution, United States National Museum: Washington, DC, 1962~
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