Study of Flesh Color and Gold
Medium
pastel on paper coated with mauve-gray grit (on strainer)
Dimensions
overall: 45.7 x 33 cm (18 x 13 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz
Accession Number
2007.94.2
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