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Still Life: Fish

William Merritt Chase

by 1908

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Vegetables Fish Still Life

Dimensions

40 1/8 x 45 1/16 in. (101.9 x 114.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

George A. Hearn Fund, 1908

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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