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Photograph of Parrish Art Museum included in the album of photographs for Jeannette Bishop created by Painter Albert Chittenden dated Summer of 1900 Collection Hope Sandrow

“The William Merritt Chase Collection and Archives”: The Parrish Art Museum holds the largest public collection of William Merritt Chase (over 40 paintings and works on paper) and an extensive archive, including more than 1,000 photographs relating to the life and work of the artist, in particular family photographs of summers spent on the East End. As portraitist and landscape painter, and as a teacher of art, Chase was unequalled in his day. Thus it was not surprising that when a group of Southampton boosters had the idea of improving the summer resort by establishing an art school—the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art—they chose the prominent artist to be the first teacher. The Museum’s collection features paintings from all periods of his work, including the early Still Life with Fruit (1871), works from the famous New York park scenes series, notably Park in Brooklyn (c. 1887); major studio paintings from the 1880s, such as The Blue Kimono (c. 1888); and of course, the paintings made during those summers in the Shinnecock Hills, including The Bayberry Bush (c. 1895).”http://parrishart.org/PermanentCollectionWilliamMerrittChaseShinnecockYears
Watch a video of Alicia G. Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator of Art Parrish Art Museum, the author of William Merritt Chase: A Life in Art, speak about William Merritt Chasewmc_-_video_Alicia_Longwell.html

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