Summer Sunlight (Isles of Shoals)

Childe Hassam

1892

Oil on canvas

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

A woman in a floral dress and straw hat sits on rocks by the sea, reading a book. The sun illuminates the scene with bright light. A woman in a floral dress and straw hat sits on rocks by the sea, reading a book. The sun illuminates the scene with bright light. Childe Hassam, America’s foremost Impressionist, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He left high school to go to work in Boston, where he learned wood engraving and eventually became an illustrator. His illustrations appeared in such publications as Scribners and Harper’s. Concurrently, he studied art at the Boston Club, and then the Lowell Institute before finally establishing his own studio. His works of the early 1880s are characterized by an ongoing exploration of new media and subject matter. Ha