Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due
Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due
Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due
Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due
Restoring the portrait of an artist: How a new exhibition is giving William Merritt Chase his due
June 23, 2016
June 2016
Reputations can fall swiftly in the world of art, sometimes in mysterious ways. But few have fallen so far and remained so hidden as William Merritt Chase. Art historian John Davis reports that in the 1880s, when Chase was just in his 30s, “he had come to dominate the American art scene.” Many Americans hailed him as their finest artist. Many Europeans agreed. But in the last hundred years since his death, almost all this adulation has dissipated. He is no longer a household name. Americans who know something about his contemporaries and friends James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent usually know nothing about William Merritt Chase. Patrons rarely rush to museums to see a Chase. Yet while the general public lost interest in Chase, the artist did keep special admirers...
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