Keying Up
William Merritt Chase
c. 1885
Medium
Etching on cream China paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.4 × 9.4 cm (6 1/8 × 3 3/4 in.); Plate: 17 × 11.5 cm (6 3/4 × 4 9/16 in.); Sheet: 23.4 × 16 cm (9 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129408
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase · 1849–1916
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