William Merritt Chase: American Impressionist - 600+ Masterpiece Paintings - Impressionism
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(Revised 2/2015 - 600+ Larger Impressionist Paintings with annotations and biography, formatted for Kindle HDX, HD, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets.)WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST Art Book contains 600+ HD Reproductions of Landscapes and Portraits, Nudes, Still Lifes and Genre Scenes with annotations and biography.Book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums of the World, and is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Stepping into William Merritt Chase’s legendary and cavernous Tenth Street studio in 1880s Manhattan, you would be confronted by a breathtakingly eclectic array of beauty. This was no mere studio but, as one contemporary remembered, a shrine “entered with bated breath and deep humility.” Taking in, no doubt with gaping mouth, the accumulation of vases, dishes, plaques, busts, instruments, rugs, samovars, furniture, fans, and, of course, paintings from around the world left the visitor in an aesthetic reverie.Both the details and the whole, as Kirsten Swinth puts it, “expressed Chase’s devotion to the world of refined sensibilities where art and interior spaces were congruent.” But while it was certainly a statement of both intent and taste, the studio above all communicated the beating heart of Chase’s art: a boyish delight in, and a collector’s desire for, finding and seeing beauty. No wonder that the studio became both a paradigm and meeting place for a new generation of artists and a recurring subject for some of this artist’s most absorbing paintings. “It was true Bohemia,” recalled a member of Chase’s circle, “when all the world was young and the possibilities were unlimited.”And we have not even met the host yet. Chase himself did not disappoint amid such sumptuous surroundings, for he made a point of being as resplendently appointed as his domain. From his Van Dyke beard down to his white spats, with fashionable clothes, exotic rings, and the ever-present white carnation in his button-hole, Chase was a dapper and elegant presence. But this was not dandyism; Chase was a recognized artistic leader and, as his biographer explains, his appearance was “a part of his concern for the things of the eye rather than personal vanity.” (cont)
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