Champs Elysee, Hassam Post Card

Champs Elysees, 1889 by Frederick Childe Hassam, 1859-1935. Childe Hassam was a prominent and prolific American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. His preferred medium was watercolors, mostly outdoor studies. He and his wife moved to Paris in 1886 so that he could study figure drawing and painting at the Academie Julian. He returned to New York in 1889 and was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs in his career, and was a founding member of The Ten, an influential group of American artists of the early 20th century.