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Roland

William Merritt Chase

ca. 1902

Medium

Oil on canvas

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Dimensions

20 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (51.8 x 41.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934

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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