Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, William Merritt Chase Link is to the painting in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum, which has zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their website. There is also a downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons. I have long Read More …
Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, William Merritt Chase In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, Met Museum
“The desire to draw was born in me.” said William Merritt Chase, in resistance to his father’s hope that he follow him into the women’s shoe business. Born in Indiana, he trained with local artist Barton S.Hays and then at the National Adacemy of Design Read More …
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, William Merritt Chase. Link is to Google Art Project, click in lower right for zoom controls. Original is in Princeton University Art Museum.
In an essay for the Laguna Art Museum, Michael McManus referred to the wave of American painters who brought the influence of the French Impressionists to California in the early 20th Century as “Impressionism’s Indian Summer”. Impressionism flowered late in California because it was largely Read More …
This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Read More …