Childe Hassam, Church at Old Lyme, 1905. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Photo via the-athenaeum.org.
Childe Hassam (1859-1935) is one of my most favorite American artists. He is also has the rare distinction of having one of his paintings hang in the Oval Office. Hassam painted New England and New York – the cityscape, the sea, and the countryside; this (at least to my knowledge) is rare for an American artist.(1) Hassam’s Impressionist style brought a beautiful softness to even the city scenes. I love this painting of an Old Lyme, Connecticut church in the autumn because it reminds me of so many lovely New England towns I visited while travelling with my skating team in middle school and high school.
Hassam painted several versions of this scene. This one is at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
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Alexandra Kiely, aka A Scholarly Skater, is an art historian based in the northeastern United States. She loves wandering down the dark and dusty corners of art history and wholeheartedly believes in visual art's ability to enrich every person's life.
Her favorite periods of art history are 19th-century American painting and medieval European art and architecture. When she not looking at, reading about, writing about, or teaching art, she's probably ice dancing or reading.
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A Scholarly Skater 
excellent post 🙂