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| | Childe Hassam | American Impressionist | Hollis Taggart Galleries |
 | | His friend and colleague, Boston artist Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938), claimed that Hassam was “one of the great painters of America.”(1) Born Frederick Childe Hassam (he later stopped using his first name) on October 17, 1859, he grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, then a suburb of Boston. |
 | | In 1897, he participated in the establishment of the Ten American Painters, an exhibiting society that included William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Edmund Charles Tarbell, John Twachtman (1853-1902), and Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919). |
 | | Respecting his wish, this organization sold many of his pictures to establish a fund for the purchase of American art, which, in turn, was presented to museums. |
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