Self-Portrait
1915 · oil on canvas
overall: 63.5 × 51.44 cm (25 × 20 1/4 in.)
framed: 82.55 × 72.39 cm (32 1/2 × 28 1/2 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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William Merritt Chase
1849
PaintingImpressionism
Representation
None documented
3
Institutional Exhibitions
54
Works in Collection
69
Assets Indexed
2
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Romantic Painting in America
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943–1944
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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American Painting and Sculpture, 1862�1932
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1932–1933
About
Why this artist matters now
William Merritt Chase was an American painter and teacher known for his loose brushwork and direct approach to portraiture and still life, working primarily in oil. A founder of the Chase School of Art in New York, he shaped American art education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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National Gallery of Art
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Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
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