William Merritt Chase

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Impressionist painter art teacher human painter

William Merritt Chase was a prominent American painter and influential art teacher known for his Impressionist style and for founding and teaching at several important art schools in the United States.

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Impressionist painter → art teacher → human → painter →
awardReceived	honors from the National Academy of Design →
burialPlace	Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1849-11-01 →
dateOfDeath	1916-10-25 →
educatedAt	National Academy of Design → Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich →
familyName	Chase →
fieldOfWork	art education → painting →
founded	Chase School of Art → Chase School of Art, Shinnecock → Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art →
genre	interior scenes → landscape painting → portrait painting → still life painting →
givenName	William →
influenced	American Impressionist painters → students at the Art Students League of New York →
influencedBy	European Impressionism → Munich School of painting →
memberOf	National Academy of Design →
movement	American Impressionism → Impressionism → Tonalism →
name	William Merritt Chase →
nationality	American →
notableStudent	Charles Demuth → Charles Sheeler → Edward Hopper → Georgia O’Keeffe → Joseph Stella → Rockwell Kent →
notableWork	A Friendly Call → Idle Hours → In the Studio → Keying Up – The Court Jester → Portrait of Dora Wheeler → Shinnecock Hills → The Open Air Breakfast → The Young Orphan →
numberOfChildren	8 →
occupation	art teacher → painter → professor →
placeOfBirth	Nineveh, Indiana →
placeOfDeath	New York City →
positionHeld	president of the Society of American Artists →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Alice Gerson Chase →
style	loose, painterly technique → luminous brushwork → plein air painting →
taughtAt	Art Students League of New York → Brooklyn Art Association → Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts →
workLocation	Brooklyn, New York → New York City → Shinnecock Hills, Long Island →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Parsons School of Design →	founder
Carolus-Duran →	influenced
William Merritt Chase →	name
Art Students League of New York →	notableFaculty
Tenth Street Studio Building →	notableResident
Carolus-Duran →	notableStudent