Even as a young boy, Childe Hassam showed a talent for drawing. He was still just a teenager when he became an apprentice to a wood engraver in Boston. He studied art at several schools in Boston. Hassam also spent three years studying painting in Paris, where he was inspired by a new art movement known as Impressionism. Childe Hassam was a pioneer of American Impressionism. During his very successful fifty-year career, Hassam specialized in New York street scenes and New England landscapes.

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