Hassam exhibit at Peabody Essex leaves lasting impression

Now through Nov. 6, let the Peabody Essex Museum make an impression on you! Co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory of Maine, the PEM presents the Childe Hassam exhibition designed to immerse guests in a multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary experience of more than 40 of the prolific American Impressionist's finest works.

Entering the second floor gallery of the Museum, visitors are wrapped in time and place by a floor-to-ceiling black and white panorama of life in the summer colony of Appledore. With Star Island, Appledore is known as a part of the Isle of Shoals. Appledore, the largest island in the Atlantic's archipelago, is where Boston-born, Lowell Institute-trained Hassam spent most summers between 1886-1916. There he inhaled the salt air and basked in the light of coastal New England.