music:Tchaikovsky,Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Frederick Childe Hassam (b. October 17, 1859, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts d. August 27, 1935, East Hampton, New York) was an American Impressionist painter. Hassam (pronounced HASS'm;) (known to all as Childe, pronounced like child) was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on October 17, 1855. His father was a successful Boston businessman who was ruined financially in the great fire of 1872. Hassam left high school without graduating and ended up working for a Boston wood engraver. As an artist his formal studies were begun at the Boston Art Club (1878) and later continued at the Acadèmie Julian in Paris (1886-1889). He was greatly influenced by Louis Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He attended drawing classes at the Lowell Institute, a division of MIT, and was a member of the Boston Art Club. The early portion of his artistic career were devoted to illustrations and watercolors. At the age of 23 Hassam was exhibiting publicly and had his first solo exhibition, of watercolors, at the Williams and Everett Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892. From this time forward, Hassam was committed to the life of a professional painter. Recognition came early in both the US and abroad. In 1884 he married Kathleen Maudï Doane. Two years later he set off for Paris to complete his artistic training at Academie Julian. In addition, it being the center of the art world at the time Paris was home to several of the most <b>...</b>