A new exhibit at the Portland Art Museum focuses on a little-known aspect of Hassam's work - Impressionist renderings of peaks, stormy bays, frothy shores and big-skied deserts in the Northwest.
Altogether Hassam finished about 80 paintings in the Pacific Northwest - many of them landscapes, but also portraits and still-lifes. "We argued that he is really the leader of American Impressionism," said the Portland Art Museum. "He was the only American artist who studied in Paris who really connected with French Impressionism."
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Art Impressions Revisited
American Impressionist Childe Hassam traveled in the early 1900s - painting landscapes, waterscapes and street scenes in New York, Paris and Boston. He is best known for cross-sections of city life - pedestrians clad in black, horse-drawn buses and rainy skies. And he is famous for a series of American flag paintings, one of which, "Avenue in the Rain," hangs in the White House, next to the Oval Office.
A new exhibit at the Portland Art Museum focuses on a little-known aspect of Hassam's work - Impressionist renderings of peaks, stormy bays, frothy shores and big-skied deserts in the Northwest.
Altogether Hassam finished about 80 paintings in the Pacific Northwest - many of them landscapes, but also portraits and still-lifes. "We argued that he is really the leader of American Impressionism," said the Portland Art Museum. "He was the only American artist who studied in Paris who really connected with French Impressionism."
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Irish Art
A new exhibit at the Portland Art Museum focuses on a little-known aspect of Hassam's work - Impressionist renderings of peaks, stormy bays, frothy shores and big-skied deserts in the Northwest.
Altogether Hassam finished about 80 paintings in the Pacific Northwest - many of them landscapes, but also portraits and still-lifes. "We argued that he is really the leader of American Impressionism," said the Portland Art Museum. "He was the only American artist who studied in Paris who really connected with French Impressionism."
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
