Excerpt from Childe Hassam<br><br>He has a way of taking his own where he finds it, and thus he leaves the stamp of his personality on localities where he has'worked. Take Gloucester for example. Before I had seen Hassam's pictures, it seemed a fishy little city, now as I pass through it I feel Hassam. The schooners beating in and out, the wharves, the sea, the sky, these belong to Hassam. Just as one cannot go to Venice and be very far from Whistler. There are many other spots that he has made his own: but one of these in great contrast to Gloucester is Fifth Avenue. This street he has done at various times, and over a long period. Back in the days when hansom cabs and victorias were in evidence, then with the automobile, precisely mechanical, traflic congested, and with racial crowds of the clothing shops. The most daring effort was to paint the Flags. No one had ever painted flags before, so now when one thinks of flags one thinks of Hassam's flag pictures. These pic tures were not garish affairs but were filled with the poetry of patriotism. He made the F lags symbols of his heritage. Only a Puritan could have painted flags as he did.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.