Portrait of Adelaide Christina Meyer, 1913
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 21 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches
Gift of the John Levy Galleries, New York, 1934
Frederick Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935)
Hassam, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, studied under Ignaz Gaugengigl and started his artistic career as an illustrator for Harpers, Scribner's and Century Magazine. Later he went to Paris where he was exposed to the French Impressionists. He quickly became an accomplished painter in the impressionist style and became a founding member of "The Ten" the most influential group of American impressionist painters.
He is noted for his series of paintings on Appledore Island, the flag paintings in New York, scenes of New England. He is closely associated with the impressionists art colonies of Cos Cob and Old Lyme in Connecticut. Hassam is considered by many to be the most important American impressionist and his work is in all the major collections of American Impressionists. He exhibited in Richmond in 1912. Correspondence with the artist is in the museum's archives.
