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Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase
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Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase

Medium

Oil on wood

Dimensions

23 1/2 x 16 9/16 in. (59.7 x 42.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979

Department

The American Wing

Culture

American

Rights

Public Domain

About William Merritt Chase

1849–1916United 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