Hassam's Amaze

The National Academy of Design, Manhattan, opened its winter exhibit, awarded prizes. Many a struggling young artist awoke, dumbfounded, to find himself knighted with a check. Among the rewarded was a famed artist whose youth and struggles have long been at an end--Childe Hassam, famed New England impressionist. Yet he, too, was dumbfounded. Receiving the Altman Prize, carrying with it $1,000, for his portrait Miss Ingram, he is said to have expressed great surprise, remarking that he thought he had already won every prize possible for the Academy to give. Quite explicable is Mr. Hassam's amaze at this last straw dropped so courteously on his already prodigious load of honors. The present portrait, painted several years ago, previously won the Philadelphia Art Club Gold Medal, though it has never before been exhibited in Manhattan. His pictures hang in over 20 museums. In 1920 alone, he received 25 important medals. Among his best-known pictures are: Church at Old Lyme, Isles of Shoals, June Idylle, A Rainy Night, Gloucester Harbor.