William Merritt Chase
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William Merritt Chase was an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later became the Parsons School o
Chase in 1900
Self portrait, 1915–16, oil on canvas, Richmond Art Museum
Photo by Noel Rowe of William Merritt Chase in his studio on Tenth Street New York which he held from 1875 to 1895
Mrs. Chase in Pink, Figge Art Museum
Pastel
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A pastel is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments
William Merritt Chase
…Johan Claesz Loo featured in The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633. Chase worked in all media. He was most fluent in oil painting and pastel, but also created watercolor paintings and etchings. S.G.W. Benjamin said of his style in a contemporary review: A noble sense of color is perceptible…
William Merritt Chase, Study of Flesh Color and Gold, 1888, National Gallery of Art
Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a bravura pastel portrait of Louis XV, 1748
Commercial oil pastels
Odilon Redon, Baronne de Domecy, c. 1900, pastel and graphite on light brown laid paper, J. Paul Getty Museum