Childe Hassam's guest appearances

Childe Hassam

National Gallery of Art | Videos

Mead Art Museum Podcast

Boston Athenæum

Education - MuseumKids

From Homer to Hopper: American Watercolor Masterworks from the Currier Museum of Art

A Toast to the Arts

Hieronymus Bosch

David McCullough

Stephen Kinzer

Richard Bell

Sarah Parcak

Mary Norris

Frank Gehry

Edgar Degas

James Meyer

Carrie Mae Weems

Robert Gould

Robert Shiller

Nina Campbell

Theodore Roosevelt

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

OwlTail

Erica Hirshler

January 19, 2016 at the Boston Athenæum.In this talk, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler will share excerpts of her vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, Childe Hassam’s “At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)”. She will discuss with audience members the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette, and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today “At Dusk” seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler will reveal the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from subtleties about women's place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. She will discuss her carefully researched and elegantly presented book, which offers a new perspective to those already acquainted with the painting as well as an evocative look at a singular moment in Boston history.

January 19, 2016 at the Boston Athenæum.<br><br>In this talk, leading American art specialist Erica E. Hirshler will share excerpts of her vivid account of one of Boston's best-loved paintings, Childe Hassam’s “At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)”. She will discuss with audience members the context of Childe Hassam's 1880s city scene. With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette, and quiet expanse of snow-laden park, today “At Dusk” seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly old-fashioned city. Yet Hirshler will reveal the ways in which the painting visually signaled the emerging modern city, from subtleties about women's place in the urban landscape to the uproarious clang of the streetcars that would have been heard on the busiest block in Boston. She will discuss her carefully researched and elegantly presented book, which offers a new perspective to those already acquainted with the painting as well as an evocative look at a singular moment in Boston history.

Erica Hirshler, “Childe Hassam: At Dusk: Boston Common at Twilight”

Childe Hassam / Newfields, New Hampshire (1906) & Flagstone Sidewalk, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1916)

Childe Hassam / Fifth Avenue (ca. 1890)

"Allies Day," May 1917, 1917, Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam in City and Country