But some artists, such as American Impressionists Childe Hassam and John Twachtman, are represented by nonlocal subjects.

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Colonel Audley had not exaggerated the difficulty of approaching Barbara Childe.

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The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam, 1917, depicts Fifth Avenue in New York City adorned with flags and banners in support of the Allied war effort during World War I.

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Childe ascribed the shift to climate change, to conditions that dried up the lush forests and plains: humans and animals were drawn together at the last remaining oases, where proximity led to domestication, sedentism, and agriculture.

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Andy Warhol's 1977 portrait of Jack Nicklaus and five cartoons from George Schulz's "Snoopy's Grand Slam, " in which the "Peanuts" dog plays three tournaments including the Masters and the U.S. Open, are also on display, along with works by James McNeil Whistler, Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Norman Rockwell.

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