弗雷德里克·蔡尔德·哈萨姆
（1859—1935）
哈萨姆出生于1859年，马萨诸塞州的多切斯特，母亲是纳撒尼尔·霍桑的后代。
他早年家里经营的五金店毁于大火，之后他在一家波士顿出版商处获得职位，业余时间则在豪威尔研究所和波士顿艺术俱乐部学习绘画。
Hassam was born in 1859 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and his mother was a descendant of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
His family's hardware store, which was run by his parents, was destroyed by fire when he was young, and he later got a job at a Boston publisher while studying painting at the Howe Institute and the Boston Art Club in his spare time.
1883年，哈萨姆首次前往欧洲游历，几个月后回美国与毛德·多恩结婚。
1886年，他携妻再次游览巴黎，并到朱莉安学院进修，期间接触到法国早期印象派的画风，这对他的艺术风格产生了深远影响。
1890年，哈萨姆学成回国，并加入美国早期印象派的核心组织“十人画会”，成为该组织的中坚分子。
哈萨姆的作品带有强烈的印象派色彩。他大胆借鉴法国印象派的分色技巧，深入研究阳光之下生动多变的光色变化，同时保持着美国的本土特色。他善于描绘新英格兰地区的自然美景，以及雨雾蒙蒙、白雪皑皑或是晨光熹微、暮霭沉沉的长街陋巷，画面给人以自然清新、轻快甜美之感。
Hassam's works have strong impressionist tones. He boldly borrowed the color separation techniques from French impressionism and deeply studied the changing light and color in the vivid scenes under the sun, while maintaining the American local characteristics. He was skilled at depicting the natural beauty of New England and the long, narrow streets and rundown alleys shrouded in rain, fog, snow, or the twilight, which gave people a natural and fresh, light and sweet feeling.
