Childe Hassam

ISBN: 9781332587322 出版年：2018 页码：81 Nathaniel Pousette-Dart Forgotten Books

He has a way of taking his own where he finds it, and thus he leaves the stamp of his personality on localities where he has'worked. Take Gloucester for example. Before I had seen Hassam's pictures, it seemed a fishy little city, now as I pass through it I feel Hassam. The schooners beating in and out, the wharves, the sea, the sky, these belong to Hassam. Just as one cannot go to Venice and be very far from Whistler. There are many other spots that he has made his own: but one of these in great contrast to Gloucester is Fifth Avenue. This street he has done at various times, and over a long period. Back in the days when hansom cabs and victorias were in evidence, then with the automobile, precisely mechanical, traflic congested, and with racial crowds of the clothing shops. The most daring effort was to paint the Flags. No one had ever painted flags before, so now when one thinks of flags one thinks of Hassam's flag pictures. These pic tures were not garish affairs but were filled with the poetry of patriotism. He made the F lags symbols of his heritage. Only a Puritan could have painted flags as he did.