Childe Hassam (1859–1935) was the preeminent American Impressionist of his generation, celebrated for his shimmering renderings of New England coastal light, Manhattan street life, and the flower gardens of Appledore Island off the coast of New Hampshire. Trained in Paris during the late 1880s, he returned to the United States with a command of the Impressionist language that he adapted to distinctly American subjects — the particular quality of New England summer, the bustle of Fifth Avenue in snow, the flags and bunting of patriotic wartime parades. His palette is consistently luminous and warm, his surfaces built from confident dabs of pure color that dissolve into atmosphere at a distance. Long one of the most commercially successful American artists of his era, Hassam's work remains among the most immediately pleasurable and livable of the American Impressionist tradition.