Childe Hassam

Every post here is by Childe Hassam.

Erisava Staff 1d ago

Strawberry Tea Set by Childe Hassam, 1912

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org

Strawberry Tea Set

Public domain

Apparently he painted a whole string of these — a woman, a window, light coming through — enough of them that people talk about it as a series. It's named after the china rather than the person, which tells you something about where he was looking.

Erisava Staff 6d ago

St. Mark’s in the Bowery by Childe Hassam, 1910

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

St. Mark’s in the Bowery

Public domain

The church is real and still standing — apparently one of the oldest in New York, with Peter Stuyvesant buried underneath it. They say the painter did a whole run of city churches around this time, one after another.