The painter found Old Lyme, he said ... as “the mammoth and the mastodon of American art.” At this point, Hassam and his wife were living in a spacious apartment with floor-to-ceiling ...

Old Patent Office Building, August 2010 ... Today, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are housed in the building, renamed The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American ...

Later, he traveled around Europe, where he haunted its great museums, riffing like a jazz soloist on themes from the old ... the art world. More recent interest in 20th-century African American ...