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The Churner
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Medium

Etching

Dimensions

sheet: 9 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (23.9 x 16.8 cm) plate: 7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in. (19.4 x 13.6 cm) image: 7 1/16 x 4 1/2 in. (17.9 x 11.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1982

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About William Merritt Chase

1849–1916United 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