Fish
William Merritt Chase
by 1910
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
29 x 36 in. (73.7 x 91.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, in memory of William Merritt Chase, 1925
Accession Number
25.131
Tags
FishStill Life
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase
Prolific painter of portraits, interiors, still lifes and landscapes, famed for establishing the fresh colour and bravura technique used in much early 20th-century American painting. He was considered the most important American teacher of his time; after teaching at the Art Students League of NY he formed the Chase School of Art in 1896. Comment on works: genre, Portraits