William Merritt Chase
Modern American Landscapes 1[zasłonięte]886-18
Brooklyn Museum of Art 2000
Stron 192, format: 25x29 cm, papier kredowy
124 ilustracje w tymm 54 kolorowe.
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In 1878 the young American artist William Merritt Chase returned to his native country after six years of training in Europe, primarily at the Royal Academy in Munich. There he had studied the masterworks ol European art, laying the foundation lor his own work in the future. As author Barbara Dayer Gallati notes in this groundbreaking study. Chase left the United States a painter and came back an artist.
When he lirst returned to America, Chase continued to paint much in the manner of his European mentors. Over the following decade, however, his style and subject matter changed markedly. In contrast to his early work, which was created in the confines ol his studio and expressed in the dark tonalities associated with Munich, Chase adopted a brighter palette and plein-air technique for the urban scenes that he painted from 1886 to 1890. These include his well-known and much-admired views of parks and harbors in Brooklyn and New York City, which are recognized today as the first significant American landscape paintings in an Impressionist style.
William Merritt Chase: Modem American Landscapes, 1886— /tSyo, published to accompany a traveling exhibition of Chases paintings of this period, considers the artist's creative process in the critical years following his return to the United States, exploring how his development reflected both new aesthetic preferences and pragmatic decision-making. This beautifully illustrated study gives a detailed account of this moment in Chase s career, allowing the reader to understand why and how he transformed his art at this particular time, and to appreciate the radical modernity of his new outlook, as well as the extraordinary' importance of these urban landscapes in the context of American and European art of the period.
