American Impressionists
Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Charles Tarbell, John H. Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, James McNeill Whistler
William Merritt Chase portrait by James Carroll Beckwith, 1881-82. Indiana Museum of Art.
William Merritt Chase’s 10th St. Studio, c. 1900 Archives of American Art
![William Merritt Chase - The Tenth Street Studio [1880]
“Chase (American, 1849–1916), who is almost lost in the shadows at the right, portrays himself holding his palette as if pausing from work, but he leaves it to the viewer to deduce whether the young woman with whom he chats is a model, a patron, or a friend. Her listlessness and immersion in an aesthetic interior make her seem like a precious object, a simile embraced by many artists and collectors of the period. Her association with art reflects women’s roles as consumers and keepers of culture and arbiters of taste.” [Gandalf’s Gallery]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2gzy1UsrO1r1bfd7o1_1280.jpg)
William Merritt Chase - The Tenth Street Studio [1880]
“Chase (American, 1849–1916), who is almost lost in the shadows at the right, portrays himself holding his palette as if pausing from work, but he leaves it to the viewer to deduce whether the young woman with whom he chats is a model, a patron, or a friend. Her listlessness and immersion in an aesthetic interior make her seem like a precious object, a simile embraced by many artists and collectors of the period. Her association with art reflects women’s roles as consumers and keepers of culture and arbiters of taste.” [Gandalf’s Gallery]
Ten American Painters (The Ten), 1908, by Haeseler Photographic Studios, Philadelphia. Smithsonian American Art Museum
Seated, left to right: Edward Simmons, Willard L. Metcalf, Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Robert Reid. Standing, left to right: William Merritt Chase, Frank W. Benson, Edmund C. Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph Rodefer De Camp. src
William Merritt Chase, Portrait of Louis L. Betts. Betts (1873–1961) was a southern painter.
Thomas Eakins, Portrait of William Merritt Chase, 1899. Hirshborn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
