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Fish

William Merritt Chase

by 1910

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Fish Still Life

Dimensions

29 x 36 in. (73.7 x 91.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, in memory of William Merritt Chase, 1925

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About William Merritt Chase

1849–1916 • United States

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

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