Roses
ca. 1883
Medium
Graphic Arts
Classification
Graphic Arts
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz
Accession Number
2014.68.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
William Merritt Chase's *Roses* (ca. 1883) is a charming still life from the Graphic Arts collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, gifted by Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz. This delicate work captures a bouquet of roses arranged in a vase, highlighting Chase's keen eye for natural beauty and subtle elegance. As a master of light and texture, Chase often turned to floral subjects to explore form and color, rendering them with a freshness that evokes the fleeting vibrancy of blooms. Created during the late 19th century, when American art was embracing European influences like Impres...
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