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Article: Stylish Premodern Chase, Coeval of the Avant-Garde.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 20, 2004
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
It has come as a surprise to me to be reminded that the career of the American painter William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) actually overlapped with the emergence of the modernist movement in this country. I'd always thought of Chase--to the extent that I thought about him at all--as belonging to an earlier, premodern period. Yet in the sumptuous exhibition of his work at the Berry-Hill Galleries--it's called Chase Inside and Out: The Aesthetic Interiors of William Merritt Chase--the dates of the later pictures place the artist squarely in the age of the avant-garde. The paintings themselves, however, resist that classification.
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