Greatest American Painters (by Suzay Lamb)

Frederick Childe Hassam was an american painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt 1844-1926 and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. Hassam was a prolific painter: produced over 3.000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century. Hassam was born in 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1876 he was apprenticed to a local wood engraver and soon thereafter became a freelance illustrator. In the evenings he attended the life class at the Boston Art Club, then briefly studied anatomy with William Rimmer at the Lowell Institute, and took private lessons from the German-born painter Ignaz Gaugengigl.