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Article: A friendly face in world of art // Gallery co-founder wants to brush away everyday people's fears
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 23, 1986
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Robert Chase worries a lot - about you. He doesn't want you to be
afraid. He doesn't want you to be intimidated or nervous, or to
feel like an unsophisticated idiot. He wants you to relax, have
fun, lighten up - especially when you come over to his place, which
is the Merrill Chase Galleries.
The subject is buying art, as if you plop down hundreds or
thousands of hard-earned bucks for the privilege of taking home a
painting or a lithograph or an etching. It's a process that Chase
talks about not in terms of artists' visions or what critical
magazines like Art in America have to say; Chase uses words like
"friendly" and "inviting." That's what he feels the process should
be and ...