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Quiz about Childe Hassam Yankee Impressionist
Quiz about Childe Hassam Yankee Impressionist

Childe Hassam, Yankee Impressionist Quiz


Childe Hassam pioneered French Impressionism in American painting.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
tjoebigham
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
189,199
Updated
Mar 09 22
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
331
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Question 1 of 15
1. What was Hassam's real first name? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Where was he born? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Hassam was related to Nathaniel Hawthorne.


Question 4 of 15
4. What was Hassam's ancestry? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. What work did Hassam do in his teens? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What symbol did he add to his signature in the mid-1880's? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What nickname did he give himself? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Who did he marry? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. Starting in 1886, how many years did he and his wife stay in Paris? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. What artist first rented the Montmartre studio Hassam worked in? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. After his stay in Paris, where did Hassam settle? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What Newport, R.I. landmark did he once paint? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. What poet-innkeeper let Hassam the use of her garden for painting? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. What subject did Hassam paint that was revelant in the time he did it? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. What was Hassam's lifespan? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What was Hassam's real first name?

Answer: Frederick

His original middle name, Childe, came from an uncle of his; he later dropped the "Frederick" and was known as "Childe".
2. Where was he born?

Answer: Dorchester, Mass.

Dorchester today is part of Boston, which Hassam painted in many of his early canvases. He was an athlete in his youth and he boasted of swimming Dorchester Bay and punching out other kids.
3. Hassam was related to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Answer: True

Hassam's mother, Rosa Delia Hawthorne, was part of the family where Salem's great author came from.
4. What was Hassam's ancestry?

Answer: English

His father Frederick, whom Hassam was originally named for, was a Boston cutlery seller who descended from a 17th-century Englishman named Horsham (the distortion came later).
5. What work did Hassam do in his teens?

Answer: draftsmanship

Hassam quit high school when 17 and became a draftsman in a Boston wood-engraving shop. By his early 20's he'd illustrated "Harper's" and "Scribner's" magazines and took art classes.
6. What symbol did he add to his signature in the mid-1880's?

Answer: a crescent moon

Hassam looked Middle Eastern with his eyes and swarthiness, so he playfully encouraged thinking on this part. The moon later evolved into a mere slash.
7. What nickname did he give himself?

Answer: Muley

"Muley" came from Muley Abul Hassan, a 15th-century sultan of Grenada, related in Irving's "Tales of the Alhambra". The name comes from the Arabic for "lord, master". Again, Hassam was playfully posing as a Middle Easterner.
8. Who did he marry?

Answer: Kathleen Maud Doane

She was a family friend he courted for many years before finally marrying. Their marriage lasted 51 years. Hassam once called her his "business manager, legal adviser and wife all in one". She also modelled for him in his early paintings.
9. Starting in 1886, how many years did he and his wife stay in Paris?

Answer: three

Like many American artists in the mid-1880's, Hassam went to Paris to study art. His early paintings of Boston were often in the rain, which he loved. But after a negative review in a Boston paper, he turned to Impressionism and gave his paintings a sense of air and light.
10. What artist first rented the Montmartre studio Hassam worked in?

Answer: Renoir

Hassam never heard of Renoir, but looking at the many canvases the Frenchman left behind inspired Hassam to try his hand at this style.
11. After his stay in Paris, where did Hassam settle?

Answer: New York City

While painting many scenes in New York, Hassam also painted open-air landscapes in Provincetown, Gloucester, the Maine coast and the Isle of Shoals in New Hampshire, many of them being his most beautiful works.
12. What Newport, R.I. landmark did he once paint?

Answer: Trinity Church

Hassam snubbed the "cottages" of the rich (still there in Newport, of course!) for a view of Newport harbor and catboats anchored there with the Church in the background. (The tower, first thought to be of Viking origin, inspired Longfellow's "The Skeleton in Armor")
13. What poet-innkeeper let Hassam the use of her garden for painting?

Answer: Celia Thaxter

Thaxter was a popular poet in the early 20th century, and also owned an inn on New Hampshire's Appledore Island. Some of Hassam's best works were of her garden. Lowell, Doolitle (who wrote under her initials "H.D.") and Teasdale never owned inns.
14. What subject did Hassam paint that was revelant in the time he did it?

Answer: American flags

It was 1916 and America entered WW1, so Hassam showed his patriotism by painting flags on a building wall in Manhattan during the Fourth of July. Once a New York policeman collared him on suspicion of being a German spy. But Hassam praised the errant cop for his watchfulness!
15. What was Hassam's lifespan?

Answer: 1859-1935

Hassam was born before the Civil War and lived through the era of Whistler, Monet and others into the time of Hopper, Marsh and other realist painters of the Depression. But his works remains the finest examples of French Impressionism applied to the American scene.
Source: Author tjoebigham

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