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Title: Landscape Medium: Oil on board Style: Realist Size: 11" x 21" Frame Size: 15" x 25" Age: 1900s Condition: Good, loooks dirty because of age good condition for its age. Artist: William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) William Merritt Chase was active/lived in New York, California, Indiana. William Chase is known for plein-air landscape, interior scenes and genre painting, teaching. The following was written and compiled by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California: In 1887 Chase married Alice Gerson on February 8, one day before the birth of their first child, a daughter. Who delayed the marriage for so long is not known; Chase was the ideal of a conservative gentleman-artist and this violation of a major Victorian taboo was striking. They lived at first with Chase's family in a small house in Brooklyn and then moved to their own apartment in Manhattan. Alice gave birth to eight children in steady succession, providing Chase with a ready source of models. In the summer of 1891 Chase was hired to head the Shinnecock School of Art, where he taught students to work by a method so radical and innovative it virtually redefined American art: plein air painting. Cottages were built to house the many students who flocked in from around the country. Each day he announced the outdoor location for his students, emphasizing the need for courage in seeing the world openly. "It usually takes two to paint" he said, "One to paint and the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it." In 1896 he established the Chase School of Art, and later took pupils to Europe to study and copy the masters. Chase was a glittering personality with a pointed gray beard and a handlebar mustache. He could could paint a life-size full length portrait in only three hours and he finished his most famous still-life pictures so rapidly that the fish used in them, borrowed from a nearby market, were returned still fresh. He was the first President of the Society of American Artists. Like many of his American compatriots, Chase thought his real education as a painter depended on European training. After returning from the continent to New York in 1878, he became one of the most successful and sought-after artists. His style is associated with a bravura painting technique and often with the lightened colors related to the Impressionists. Known for his flamboyant manner, Chase greatly influenced American taste and the American art world of his day. Provenance: Collection from Estate of Iris in New York