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
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