Luce Artist Quote “I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.” Childe Hassam, 1892, quoted in Broun, “Childe Hassam’s America,” American Art, Fall 1999 Biography Painter and illustrator. Hassam was a leading American Impressionist whose work was much influenced by Claude Monet. His landsc...