The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“The man who will go down to posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of every-day life around him.” Happy birthday to Childe Hassam, born on this day in 1859. Learn more about this pioneer of American Impressionism and view a slideshow of his works in the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: http://met.org/17ujcal

Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935) | Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine | 1890