HASSAM, CHILDE , American figure and landscape painter and etcher, was born in Dorchester, now part of the city of Boston, and studied in Boston and Paris. He soon fell under the influence of the Impressionists, and took to painting in a style of his own, in brilliant colour, with effective touches of pure pigment. He won a bronze medal at the Paris Exhibition of 1889; medals at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1893; Boston Art Club, 1896; Philadelphia Art Club, 1892; Carnegie Institute, Pitts burgh, 1898; Buffalo Pan-American, 1901; Temple gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1899 ; silver medal, Paris Exhibition, 1900; and gold medal of honour, Pennsyl vania Academy of Fine Arts, 1920; and a gold medal at the Ses quicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1926.