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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William Merritt Chase · 1849–1916
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