Childe Hassam once told an interviewer, “I believe the thoroughfares of the great French metropolis are not one whit more interesting than the streets of New York.” And our painting is just as good, too!, he didn’t say, but he may as well have: Upon his return from study in Paris in 1889, Hassam, along with like-minded fellow American painters like John Henry Twachtman, William Meritt Chase, J. Alden Weir and others, spent the next few decades establishing a distinctly domestic strain of Impressionist painting, informed by the work of the French masters, but apart from it. more ›

with a sort of Bacchanalian ferocity. This is a very physical production of the Shakespearean tragedy, and the intensity serves the work well. more ›