DOI Heft:
No. 93 (December, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Knaufft, Ernest: An American painter, William M. Chase
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0179
W. M. Chase
Ruysdael in his coast scenes, the flat foreground as a teacher, a thesis might be written upon
with the low horizon and large expanse of rolling Mr. Chase as an influence. Of course his main
clouds. influence has, as we have said, been as a
In his talks to his pupils Mr. Chase displays a teacher. It is, perhaps, not an exaggeration to
ready wit equal to that for which Mr. Whistler is say that in the families of one-half of the
celebrated, which enables him to put a technical picture-buyers of New York there will be found
proposition in the form of an aphorism, as though a member who has studied some time or other
it were a bit of profound philosophy. He is under Mr. Chase at the League, or in his private
gathering together some of the best of his sayings, studio, or in the New York Art School, of which
and they will be published this winter under the he is at present the head. These disciples of his
title " Don'ts for Art Students." have become the leaven in the large loaf of New
As a matter of record the following facts may be York's art patrons, and influence public taste for
set down :— the best. Again, many of his copies of the old
William Merritt Chase was born in Franklin, masters have been bought at various times
near Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., Nov. i, 1849. by public-spirited persons and presented to our
He studied for a short time under a local artist, art schools, where they have helped to train the
B. F. Hayes. He set up as a portrait painter in taste of the pupils. Also, his readiness to paint
Indianapolis, but soon started for New York, still-life objects, and the exhibition of these can-
where he entered the
school of the Academy
of Design, studying under
J. O. Eaton till 1872, when
he left for Munich, where
he studied as we have
recorded. Soon after his
return to America he was
elected a member of the
Society of American Artists
(1879), and was the So-
ciety's president for ten
years. Later he was elected • %JlM
Associate of the Academy
of Design, and an Acade-
mician in 1890. He is a
member of the American
Water-Colour Society, the
Munich Secession, and
Honorary Member of the
Art Students' League
(1881). He received
medals in 1876 at Phila-
delphia, at Munich in 1883,
and at the Paris Exposition
in 1889. He won honour-
able mention at the Salon
of 1881, and a silver medal
at the Salon of 1889, the
First Prize at the Cleveland
Art Association, 1894, and
the Shaw Fund Prize at
the Society of American
Artists in 1895.
As an essay might be
written upon Mr. Chase study ok a girl's head by w. m. chase
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Ruysdael in his coast scenes, the flat foreground as a teacher, a thesis might be written upon
with the low horizon and large expanse of rolling Mr. Chase as an influence. Of course his main
clouds. influence has, as we have said, been as a
In his talks to his pupils Mr. Chase displays a teacher. It is, perhaps, not an exaggeration to
ready wit equal to that for which Mr. Whistler is say that in the families of one-half of the
celebrated, which enables him to put a technical picture-buyers of New York there will be found
proposition in the form of an aphorism, as though a member who has studied some time or other
it were a bit of profound philosophy. He is under Mr. Chase at the League, or in his private
gathering together some of the best of his sayings, studio, or in the New York Art School, of which
and they will be published this winter under the he is at present the head. These disciples of his
title " Don'ts for Art Students." have become the leaven in the large loaf of New
As a matter of record the following facts may be York's art patrons, and influence public taste for
set down :— the best. Again, many of his copies of the old
William Merritt Chase was born in Franklin, masters have been bought at various times
near Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., Nov. i, 1849. by public-spirited persons and presented to our
He studied for a short time under a local artist, art schools, where they have helped to train the
B. F. Hayes. He set up as a portrait painter in taste of the pupils. Also, his readiness to paint
Indianapolis, but soon started for New York, still-life objects, and the exhibition of these can-
where he entered the
school of the Academy
of Design, studying under
J. O. Eaton till 1872, when
he left for Munich, where
he studied as we have
recorded. Soon after his
return to America he was
elected a member of the
Society of American Artists
(1879), and was the So-
ciety's president for ten
years. Later he was elected • %JlM
Associate of the Academy
of Design, and an Acade-
mician in 1890. He is a
member of the American
Water-Colour Society, the
Munich Secession, and
Honorary Member of the
Art Students' League
(1881). He received
medals in 1876 at Phila-
delphia, at Munich in 1883,
and at the Paris Exposition
in 1889. He won honour-
able mention at the Salon
of 1881, and a silver medal
at the Salon of 1889, the
First Prize at the Cleveland
Art Association, 1894, and
the Shaw Fund Prize at
the Society of American
Artists in 1895.
As an essay might be
written upon Mr. Chase study ok a girl's head by w. m. chase
iS7
I