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In this vivid account of one of Boston's bestloved paintings, leading American art specialist Erica E Hirshler illuminates the context of Childe Hassam's 10s city scene With its rosy rust tones, intimate familial vignette and quiet expanse of snowladen park, today "At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)" seems to encourage reflection and represent a decidedly oldfashioned city YetJust prior to his French adventure, Hassam had painted one of the Museum of Fine Arts's most popular paintings, the softly realist "At Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight)" as well as theAt Dusk (Boston Common at Twilight) depicts a woman and her two children feeding birds on the snowcovered common as the setting sun gives the entire scene a pinkish glow Before the common was transformed into a park (the oldest in the USA) surrounded by houses and paved walkways, it was just an open field utilized for cattle grazing and the Boston Common At Twilight 15 86 Painting By Childe Hassam Rep