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William Merritt Chase: Japonisme in America

06 Saturday Jul 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Japonisme

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Academic art, Mary Cassatt, New York, New York City, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tenth Street Studio Building, United States, William Merritt Chase

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Azaleas, by William Merritt Chase
 
 
William Merritt Chase (1 November 1849 – 25 October 1916)
Photo credit: Wikipaintings)
 

William Merritt Chase

William Merritt Chase was born in Indiana, but after moving to New York, he started travelling abroad and, among other activities, bought art for American clients.  In France, he studied painting with Lemuel Wilmarth, (see Athenaeum), a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme  (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904), an academicist, and then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Munich, where he was a student of Alexander Von Wagner and Karl von Piloty.  As a student in Munich, he befriended Walter Shirlaw, Frank Duveneck, and Joseph Frank Currier, whose artwork, Currier’s, he collected.  He travelled to Venice, Italy before returning to the United States in the summer of 1878.  On his return to North-America, he showed Ready for the Ride with the newly formed Society of American Artists, of which he would later serve as president.  He also opened a studio in New York in the Tenth Street Studio Building, where he moved into Albert Bierstadt‘s former studio which he furnished in a rather “flamboyant” manner.

“Chase filled the studio with lavish furniture, decorative objects, stuffed birds, oriental carpets, and exotic musical instruments. The studio served as a focal point for the sophisticated and fashionable members of the New York City art world of the late 19th century.” (The Complete Works)

A Teacher and a Family Man

Chase became an almost unrivalled teacher.  In 1891, he opened the Shinnecock Hills Summer School.  In 1896, he founded the Chase School of Art which became the New York School of Art two years later with Chase staying on as instructor until 1907, but he also taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.  Among his students was famed artist Georgia O’Keefe, Charles Demuth, and Marsden Hartley.  In his later years, he travelled to various European countries to give summer classes.

Chase married Alice Gerson, his former model, in 1886, and the couple had eight children.  His eldest daughters, Dieudonnée and Dorothy, often posed for their father.  The family owned a townhouse in New York and another property on Long Island.  Chase had a happy family life and died in his New York townhouse.

Japonisme

Pink Azaleas and Chinese Vase
Making her Toilet
Japanese Print
Photo credit: The Complete Works 
(Please click on the images to enlarge them.)
 
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Making-Her-Toilet
 
 
Japanese-Print
 

Conclusion

Japanese art spread to several European countries and crossed the Atlantic.  For instance, it had an influence on Americans  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Merritt Chase, and Mary Cassatt.  We will look at Japonisme in the art of Mary Cassatt.  I believe she is our best example.

Moreover, a few comments are needed.  Japonisme played a major role in the development of Western art in the second half of the nineteenth century.

However, for the time being, I pause.

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Rachmaninoff‘s Piano Concerto N° 2 in C Minor, Opus 18

 Peonies

Peonies, by W. M. Chase
(Photo credit: The Complete Works)
(Please click on the image to enlarge it.)
 
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Castiglioni by Rembrandt & a Note to my Readers

24 Sunday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Sharing

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art, Baldassare Castiglione, Book of the Courtier, Drawing, New York, Rembrandt, sprezzatura, Vienna

Rembrandt

Baldassare Castiglione, by Rembrant van Rijn (1606-1669)
(pen and ink drawing)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Used with permission from Art Resource, in New York.
 

To my Readers

I receive comments I do not always have time to answer, but I read all of them and wish to thank you for your encouraging words.  It touches me that you should appreciate blogs about people who lived a long time ago.  They were a little different, but not altogether.  Human nature is human nature and that fact overrides the years that may separate us from an “ancestor.”  At any rate, I thank you.

If that’s fine with you, I will continue to write about French-Canadian /Quebecois history and literature.  But sometimes an event happens that forces me to write about another subject or not to write.

Moreover, there are times when I need to speak about an artist or a musician or a great work of literature.  This week, courtly behaviour came up.  How reassuring to know that it was not altogether superficial, or a mask.

Some of my readers have asked for longer blogs, such as sprezzatura.  Such blogs are useful to students of all ages.  Sprezzatura has to do with the behaviour of the courtier.  It is described as nonchalance, but it is in fact a certain reserve, or retenue, on the part of Castiglione’s perfect courtier.

I believe people prefer short blogs.  A mixture might be my best option.

Have a good weekend.

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June 24, 2012
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An Update, Images & Memories

19 Tuesday Jun 2012

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France, Jean de La Fontaine, Micheline Walker, New York, Paris, Roy Arden, United States, WordPress

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1919 Quebec Street, Vancouver, 1994
by © Roy Arden (b. 1957)
 
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
(with permission by Art Resource, New York)
 
  
                   
(to your right, above:  Jean-François Millet [Barbizon School]: The Gleaners, 1857)
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There is a watercolour version of this image, but we are looking at a grisaille.
 

An Update

La Fontaine’s « Les Grenouilles qui demandent un roi » (“The Frogs who desired a King”)
I have updated a blog published on August 18, 2011.  It remains relevant, but at the time I wrote it, I did not know how to embed a video in a post.  So, it is now easier to read.
 
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June 19, 2012
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