Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase
William Merritt Chase
1880–90 (?)
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
23 1/2 x 16 9/16 in. (59.7 x 42.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979
Accession Number
1979.490.5
Tags
FlowersVasesStill 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